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Sharon Noguchi, education writer, San Jose Mercury News, for her Wordpress profile. (Michael Malone/Bay Area News Group)
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  • A story on the front page Wednesday about math instruction misstated standardized test scores of a charter school. At KIPP Bay Area schools last school year, 79 percent of Bay Area middle schoolers made “typical growth” in math, compared with 50 percent of middle schoolers nationally. At Unity High in Oakland in 2013, students scored in the 99th percentile in Algebra I and the 84th percentile in general math.