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One early study showed that giving home Internet access to low-income students appeared to improve standardized reading test scores and school grades.
(To determine where a school was in relation to the cutoff, the Education Department added its percentage of students passing standardized reading tests and its percentage passing standardized math tests. The system's 1,200 schools were divided among three socioeconomic categories, and though schools from all three made the list, the majority came from the "low-need" category).
Students qualify for admission based on their scores on standardized reading and math tests.
But those subjects aren't covered by standardized reading and math tests.
Last year, just 22percentt of the school's eighth graders performed at grade level on the state's standardized reading test.
At I.S. 302 this year, Ms. Alvia said there were intense efforts to prepare students for the standardized reading tests.
For example, at P.S. 33 in the central Bronx, whose students are overwhelmingly poor, less than half passed standardized reading tests last year.
The city would rely on standardized reading and math tests that children would take for the first time in the third grade.
Although scores on city and state standardized reading tests rose sharply last year, nearly three-quarters of the students still read below grade level.
P.S. 44 has smaller classes and spent $11,437 per student last year, pushing up scores on standardized reading tests to just shy of the city average.
Mr. Bloomberg's plan would force any student scoring at Level 1, the lowest of four rankings on the standardized reading or math test, to repeat the third grade.
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