Mid-year testing shows growth in Fort Worth ISD classrooms

There is a massive construction project underway at Glen Park Elementary in Fort Worth. The construction crew may be in third grade but they’re focused on building better grades with a swimming pool on the side. "We need to count each side of these but not in the corners," said one student, while calculating dimensions. The students are learning about perimeter and area. Their teacher gave them a job as a construction crew where they had to build things and calculate how much material they needed. Mid-year test scores are...