How Much Do City Students Know?

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

The report card on America's urban schools is in, and the grades aren't good.

On Wednesday the U.S. Department of Education released the results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress's Trial Urban District Assessment, a low-stakes test administered by the research arm of that agency.

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