It’s progress, and we’ll take it. But we still need to recognize context.
Several local struggling schools showed encouraging improvement on state examinations. But there was also this: In language arts, just 6 percent of fifth-graders at Tampa’s B.T. Washington Elementary tested at their grade level, while at Potter Elementary it was 10 percent among fourth-graders.
The reasons are myriad, as we know all too well. But this is 2017–not 1954. Sobering.