NYT Fudges Figures

The Daily HowlerThis guy makes a mockery of the NYT piece lauding a near doubling of Wake County black schoolkids pass rates, from 40% to 80% in 2003-2004. Apparently the NYT omitted one tiny piece of information from the story.

But here’s what Finder didn’t tell you—across the state of North Carolina, 77 percent of all black kids scored at grade level on those same tests! That’s right; the Times devoted this front-page story to a three-point difference in passing rates—a three-point difference in passing rates on tests almost everyone passes!