Rothstein's reanalysis of the MET report's results found that over 40 percent of
those whose state exam scores place them in the bottom quarter of effectiveness are in the top half on the alternative assessment.
Not exact matches
Results from 8th grade reading and writing
exams in New York
state have been delayed because of a
scoring problem by the same testing company
whose errors in 1999 mistakenly sent thousands of New York City students to summer school.
The reactions ranged from shocked (in the case of an advocate for English language learners) to constructive (AFT chief Randi Weingarten, who offered a takeaway for other
states) to pleased (charter school operator Eva Moskowitz,
whose schools posted high
scores on the new
exams).