By the time your stopwatch gets to exactly 365:00:00:00.000, we’ll find out that there was fraud behind this:
Illinois test scores up, but fall short of federal standards
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The Illinois state standardized test results released today show the gap in performance between different groups of students is narrowing at the elementary school level, particularly because of gains among African-American, special education and low-income students. The achievement gap between white and black students has narrowed by 11.4 percent in math and 7.9 percent in reading, according to the state.
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