NYC second to last among cities in student progress on the NAEPs since 2003
Class Size Matters has done a detailed analysis of the trend in student achievement in NYC since 2003, when Mayor Bloomberg's educational policies were first implemented, as measured by the NAEPs - the national assessment carried out every two years by the federal government in 4th and 8th grade English and math.
Despite the DOE's claims of great progress when the latest NAEP scores were released in December, our analysis shows that NYC came out next to last among the 10 large cities tested over this period, plus the large city category (all cities above 250,000