There is also some unreliability in test results.
The overall pattern in test results statewide was similar to those on Long Island.
There is no surprise in the gaps in test results between minority and white students.
But in three years, she said, the gap in test results has closed by 26percentt.
Local officials are linked to the school boards, as is the teachers' union, which opposes Edison at two of the five schools, citing modest gains in test results.
The greatest dip in test results was seen in girls who had no set bedtime throughout early life, at three, five and seven years old.
One of the big ones is that experimentation teams sometimes miss the next big innovation because they're constantly making incremental improvements that show quickly in test results.
Then there were complaints of long waits at the testing centers, attendants unfamiliar with the operation of equipment, computer glitches and wild fluctuations in test results.
Both summer camps and school-based programs recorded similar improvements in test results.
Variability in test results was studied, which may arise from the sample drawing site.
UKSA agreed with us, saying last week the DfE should in future state that the data as presented could not be used – by ministers and others – to imply a "causal link" between academy status and improvements in test results.
