While not the worst fourth-grade scores in the district, the school's rankings continue to place it toward the bottom of the TUSD list and well below national averages. Nevertheless, teachers and parents say they see noticeable changes in student performance - particularly when compared with how older children fared before Ochoa started using the new methods. Before, some parents said their children did poorly in high school because they were ill prepared and unmotivated to handle the tougher work. Licea said of her older children. Now Ochoa community members say they just need to persuade the rest of Tucson that things are different than what previous publicity of standardized test scores projected.
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