Robin Scholz
Fifth-grade teacher Phyllis Peete works with students after school in a class preparing them for the Illinois Standards Achievement Test at Thomas Paine Elementary in Urbana. The state board of education has yet to release official results from testing this spring.
The numbers didn't add up.
When administrators at several area school districts looked at the reading scores from the 2007 Illinois Standards Achievement Test – more commonly called ISAT – they were baffled. Some scores went way up. Others way down. It was weird.
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