{"id":393956,"date":"2017-08-23T19:44:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=393956"},"modified":"2017-08-23T19:44:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:44:50","slug":"students-scores-on-state-tests-inch-up-but-racial-gap-remains-wide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=393956","title":{"rendered":"Students&#8217; Scores on State Tests Inch Up, But Racial Gap Remains Wide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170823\/civic-center\/state-english-math-exams-scores-opt-out\">This post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170823\/civic-center\/state-english-math-exams-scores-opt-out\">this site<\/a>.   <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170823\/civic-center\/state-english-math-exams-scores-opt-out\">Click here<\/a> to read the post and view byline and photo credits etc.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170823\/civic-center\/state-english-math-exams-scores-opt-out#\" class=\"js-modal media-modal\" title=\"High School Test\"><img class=\"vital xs-xxxlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/assets.dnainfo.comlarger-ab414f5113b54ba5d0f0b74927207e97795bdb46.jpg\" alt=\" Nearly 41 percent of third through eighth grade students were proficient in English; nearly 38 percent passed state math tests. \" \/><\/a> Nearly 41 percent of third through eighth grade students were proficient in English; nearly 38 percent passed state math tests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20170823\/civic-center\/state-english-math-exams-scores-opt-out#\" class=\"view-more pull-left dropup hide\" title=\" Nearly 41 percent of third through eighth grade students were proficient in English; nearly 38 percent passed state math tests. \">View Full Caption<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>CIVIC CENTER &mdash; New York City&rsquo;s students in grades three through eight saw their scores rise on state English exams&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;marking the first time that city students outperformed their state peers&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;while their scores on the&nbsp;math exams also inched up, Mayor Bill de Blasio and School Chancellor Carmen Fari&ntilde;a announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>For English, 40.6 percent of students met proficiency standards, up 2.6 percentage points from the year before, when 37.8 percent had passing grades. Those scores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site. Click here to read the post and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393957,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124717284],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393956"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393961,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393956\/revisions\/393961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}