Aug 30, 2016
D.C. Students Show Slight Improvement On PARCC Tests
White students are the only demographic that saw a decline in the annual evaluation.
Aug 09, 2011
How Have Test Scores Changed Since Fenty’s Takeover?
In 2007, then-mayor Adrian Fenty took control of the District’s public schools, a decision that had wide-reaching consequences. Five years later, though, we were curious — since that time, how have the District’s students performed on the city’s standardized testing?
Apr 04, 2011
Rapping About The CAS: All The Kids Are Doing It
On Friday, this editor posted a video of students and teachers at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School bustin’ out some hot rhymes about dominating the District’s Comprehensive Assessment Test, which D.C. students are taking this week. I stated that it was “the best song ever composed” about the test, “in that it’s probably the first.” I could not have been more wrong. Because CAS raps are officially a thing.
Apr 01, 2011
Eat Your Heart Out, Rebecca Black
Can the students and teachers at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School — specifically, that one kid at the 1:20 mark of this clip — get down or what?