Officials trumpeted these results. In reading, the city’s proportion of passing eighth graders — for years the subject of hand-wringing — rose a breathtaking 7.9 percentage points, with 46.4 percent of fluent English speakers tested qualifying as proficient compared with 38.5 percent the year before. Reading results for eighth graders statewide were as comforting.
Ummmm.....
Yeah, that's less than half the students who can actually read by the eigth grade.
Why is this "comforting"?
What am I missing?
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