Most Edison Schools Report Rise in Test Scores

By Mark Walsh

Achievement trends are heading steadily upward at the vast majority of Edison Project schools that have been open for more than a year, the company said last week in its second annual report on school performance.

Edison students are gaining, on average, 5 percentage points annually on nationally normed achievement tests and 6 percentage points on state criterion-referenced tests, according to the April 7 report.

Of the 17 Edison Project schools that have been able to establish achievement trends, 14 have records that the company characterized as either positive or strongly positive. Three schools have what the company called mixed records of achievement, and none had negative...