Schools: State releases results of new standardized testing

The Common Core results around the state shows increases in both ELA and math. However, the results for Black students are around 37% difference of Black students meeting and exceeding standards w their White counterparts.

If Cal schools actually implemented Equity, we might be reporting different scores. Little focus means no focus. We all can do better.

Two-thirds of the tested students failed to meet the math requirement.

More than half of the tested students failed to meet the English requirement.

Good job, California educators!

@pogo Sure, blame the educators--again. Doesn't it ever occur to any of the knee-jerk blamers that education is not the sole responsibility of schools? A student's ability to succeed comes from many sources, including the crucial parental home environment.

Try educating a child who comes to school tired and, or, hungry. Or try teaching the student who is using drugs. There's also the sad truth contained in the old adage: you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ears. Poor nutrition from the parent's own childhood through to the student's childhood does cause some intellectual impairments--should we also blame that on educators? (Schools are now expected to feed students breakfast at school and provide lunches too.)

Our schools and teachers are not miracle workers. As for the "common Core," good grief is all I can say about that boondoggle!