{"id":17236,"date":"2016-07-29T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17236"},"modified":"2016-07-29T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T17:52:27","slug":"achievement-gap-stubbornly-remains-despite-four-year-trend-of-higher-test-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17236","title":{"rendered":"Achievement Gap stubbornly remains despite four-year trend of higher test scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/4082852-duluth-test-scores-improve-gaps-persist\"> Trib reported yesterday<\/a> our District has recently made modest gains in student testing achievement vis a vis the state. According to our Dr. Tawnyea Lake &#8220;&#8230;in the last four years, we&#8217;ve increased our reading scores by 7 percentage points and 11 (percentage points) in math, while the state has remained relatively flat&#8230;.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Despite this our infamous &#8220;achievement gap&#8221; between races which seems to have <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16717\">landed us in court<\/a> is just as stubborn as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Trib reported yesterday our District has recently made modest gains in student testing achievement vis a vis the state. According to our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17240,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17236\/revisions\/17240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}