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POOREST CITIES SHOW GAINS, BUT PICTURE STILL BLEAK
[5 NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT/SPORTS FINAL Edition]
Hartford Courant
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Hartford, Conn.
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The upward trend of the scores illustrates that focus and additional resources do make a difference, the superintendents said. To make the next jump a big one, they said, the state must begin offering universal preschool starting at age 2. If the urban youngsters entered kindergarten with skills similar to those of their suburban peers, such as the ability to count, recite the alphabet, use an extensive vocabulary and name colors, then the gap between the rich and poor would dwindle, they said. The urban superintendents stressed that it is misleading to simply focus on the number of students reaching the state goal on the tests. Hartford, for example, scored the lowest among the municipalities in meeting the goal in three areas -- fourth-grade reading and writing and sixth-grade reading. But the district decreased the number of students in the lowest scoring level for fourth-grade reading, called the "intervention" level, so significantly this year that the fourth grade as a whole climbed out of the intervention level for the first time, [Robert Henry] said. Now, the grade as a whole is deemed as meeting the "basic" level. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without permission.
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