Hartford Courant Editorial Sticks to “Don’t Confuse me with the Facts” Approach.

- Wait, What?: "Now, the Courant is very familiar with the issue of CMT test scores because it regularly applauded Steven Adamowski, the former Hartford Superintendent of Schools, for his success in improving test scores.

It was only after the fact that we learned that the controversial administrator was able to improve CMT scores by moving, at least in part, significant numbers of low performing children from the CMTs to an alternative MAS test.

I recently found a PowerPoint presentation that Mr. Adamowski used at various national conferences in which he took credit for the “spectacular” increase in mastery test scores in Hartford, Connecticut.

One chart informed the audience that Hartford was able to increase the percentage of 3rd graders who achieved “goal” in Reading by 4.2% in just one year.  However, nowhere did he explain that the number of third graders taking the CMT Reading test dropped by 5.9% because he moved the low performing students from the CMT to the MAS."

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