Report: Latino students in area improve in math tests: Racial and ethnic disparities in student achievement remain stubbornly wide, despite a decade of efforts to close them, but a new report has found that Latino students are narrowing the academic gaps notably in many schools.
In Virginia, the report found, the pass rate for Latino students on state eighth-grade math tests rose almost 5 percentage points a year from 2006 to 2009. In Maryland, the rate has been rising at about the same clip. And in the District, it has been rising even faster - 8 percentage points a year.
Those increases were among the largest in a comparison of gains by racial subgroups in those jurisdictions, according to the report from the Center on Education Policy to be made public Tuesday. They reflected a national pattern.
