Exclusive: Majority-Black Schools See Some Gains, But Recovery Not ‘Fast Enough’

In this The 74 article, Jacobson reports on newly released 2024-25 i-Ready reading and math results, which show modest gains for students in majority-black schools, but limited recovery overall following the pandemic. CALDER's Dan Goldhaber suggests that the way the i-Ready assessment results are reported (i.e. by showing the proportion of students at or below grade level thresholds) may actually be obscuring the growth of students who move up a grade level or two over time. Read the article to learn more about the assessment results.