NAEP, the Long View, and the Crisis in Reading
The latest scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress--the gold standard, no-stakes federal test--were released this morning. Only about one-third of American fourth-graders are proficient in reading, and 40 percent are proficient in math. Over the past two years, there has been no statistically significant improvement in the black-white achievement gap, and only a tiny closing of the Hispanic-white gap.
Let's look more closely at the reading scores. First, over the past two decades:
It's important to keep an even longer view in mind when looking at these numbers. Although the picture in math
Let's look more closely at the reading scores. First, over the past two decades:
It's important to keep an even longer view in mind when looking at these numbers. Although the picture in math