Hartford: At Jumoke Academy, Chiseling Away The Achievement Gap - Hartford Courant:
HARTFORD — — The student populations seem much the same: Minority children from mostly working-class families attending schools in the city's North End.
The school buildings are separated by just a few blocks.
But the achievement levels are gaping.
At Jumoke Academy, a charter school on Blue Hills Avenue, 100 percent of the third-graders were proficient in math on this spring's Connecticut Mastery Test. Two-thirds scored high enough to meet the state's goal in math, while 72 percent did so in reading and 77 percent achieved it in writing, all ahead of state averages.
Comments