Clintondale has raised its fourth-grade MEAP scores by more than 30 percentage points over the last five years. Our teachers are trained in it. Our principals are experts in analyzing test results. Cafeteria workers wear MEAP buttons and bring hot homemade oatmeal cookies to the classrooms during MEAP week. Janitors and bus drivers fire MEAP questions at kids.
Principals hold assemblies for parents, flashing sample MEAP questions on an overhead projector.
The schools send packets home to parents before the test, with reading questions and math problems. And teachers make sure they're teaching every MEAP subject area, every year. But Britt's not apologizing. The subjects on the tests are ones that every parent would want their child to know, he said. No one has taken the offer.