Vermont writing scores rise, all others flat

Writing scores jumped, and a few schools made impressive progress to narrow the achievement gap between low-income students and their peers, but otherwise standardized test scores for Vermont public school students showed little growth in 2009, according to data released Tuesday by the Vermont Education Department. Vermont Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca said in a prepared statement that improvement in instruction is producing slow but steady results, but that Vermont has more work to do.

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