Test scores

Our city’s school systems have made tremendous progress over the past decade. There are great schools and waitlists for both DC Public Schools and schools in the public charter sector. Elizabeth A. Davis is president of the Washington…

A decade and a half ago, the District of Columbia lagged far behind the rest of the country in education. Our results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) consistently ranked us at the bottom in reading and math…

While test scores in DC are inching up at lower grade levels, high-poverty high schools continue to post abysmal results despite a decade of education reform. Some are pinning the blame on poverty and racism. But many DC schools have yet to…

It appears District of Columbia education leaders and elected officials, including Mayor Muriel Bowser, have conspired to deliberately mislead the public about the academic achievement of public school students on this year’s standardized…