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“About 36 percent of Illinois fourth-graders ranked as proficient in math, up from 20 percent in 2000. In eighth-grade reading, 30 percent rated as proficient, down from 35 percent in 2003.”

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FWIW at least that means that the majority of students can’t wrap their brains around how sad that is. A student was quoted as saying “who needs math irl lol”. Ok I made that up but you know it’s true.

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