District statistics were collected during the second year of program implementation and demonstrate academic success, including
substantial percentage gains through state assessment scores, state accountability ratings, and improvement gains.»
Despite the fact that the HUI suffered a
substantial percentage decline during this 2.5 - month period, it still managed to
gain about 200 % over the course of the bear market's first 20 months.
One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their
gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29
percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average
gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a
substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62
percentage points.
All but one of the eight elementary turnaround schools show
substantial gains in closing the achievement gap, with the
percentage of students meeting or exceeding standards on the state test rising 8 - 28 percent, compared to the school's pre-turnaround status.