Designed To Fail: Arizona's Shocking 9-Year Decline in 3rd Grade Reading Scores

Half of all Arizona 3rd graders do not qualify - by law - to advance to 4th, but schools pass them along anyway

Warning - there are some numbers in this Stack. But you need to see the raw data to believe and appreciate the scale of epic failure that is Arizona’s public education system. And at the end I’ll post a video clip of a committee member who asks the most glaringly obvious question - can we not just raise expectations and accountability? - and the answer …