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Course Test Scores and Promised Land

literacy test scores: Her comment seems a little tone-deaf to the concerns of parents who see the irony of our children sub-par achievements, even as we are embedded in the promised land of Ontario innovation and technology sector, according to The Waterloo Record. Of course test scores are not a race. Earlier this week, Sandals said that she wasn't troubled by weak math and literacy test scores in local schools, nor that our high school graduation rates are in the bottom third of all municipalities in the province. "It not a race," she said. But that doesn't mean you dismiss problems that they reveal. Those in charge of boards that aren't doing well compared with the rest of the province should be doing everything in their power to figure out how to do better for our children. Board-by-board comparisons are there for a reason. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.