Compared with last year’s scores, the percentage of Beaufort County students meeting or exceeding standards decreased in three categories: English language arts, math and science.

Read more: http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/08/04/3241978/beaufort-county-progress-on-standardized.html

Educators in South Carolina have no clue what standardized test students will take next year to assess new state Common Core standards. However, one test is out of the running: the Smarter Balanced test the state had planned to use.

Read more: http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/04/14/3060438/zais-pulls-sc-out-of-smarter-balanced.html

” … poverty is a significant and growing problem for America — one that costs our economy hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and leaves poor families and individuals with a greatly reduced chance of achieving the American Dream. Children raised in poverty today will grow up in circumstances that, the data tell us, will give them a small, if not negligible, chance of following a path that will lead them to a markedly better place than where they began.”

Read more …  http://www.ets.org/s/research/pdf/poverty_and_education_report.pdf

“The immigration debate gets one thing right: The foreign-born population  is growing. In 2012, according to data from the Census Bureau, there  were more than 40 million people living in the U.S. who weren’t born  here, up 31 percent since 2000. … The drivers of that growth, however, have changed significantly in recent years.”

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http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/immigration-is-changing-much-more-than-the-immigration-debate/