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Benjamin Shingler
Telegraph-Journal

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FREDERICTON - New Brunswick students received a different kind of report card Thursday.

For the first time, each student received a copy of their school's provincial assessment results to take home to their parents.

"Hopefully, it's a way of better serving the discussion of how we will serve our kids," said Education Minister Kelly Lamrock.

"We're saying (to parents,) look, you're part of the solution."

School performances are rated on a number of targets set by the provincial government in literacy, numeracy, science and French as a second language.

The overall assessment results for 2008, released last month, showed improved literacy rates among both anglophone and francophone elementary school students, but less encouraging results in some tests in the higher grades.

Lamrock said the school-specific results will help everyone involved better understand what works and what doesn't.

The school report cards have traditionally been given to school and education administrators, teachers, as well as parents serving on school support committees.

Gary Sullivan, the principal at Millidgeville North School in Saint John, said the report card will encourage parents to get involved.

"Quite often, we'll have discussions about the soccer team or the school trip, but this is the curriculum report card," Sullivan said. "I mean ultimately, this is why we're in school, so it's nice to have a focus on that."

The school report cards are available online at http://www.gnb.ca/0000/results/index-e.asp.