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New NAEP data: Getting it right with younger students. Stalling at high school. Why?  

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By Maureen Downey

This morning the Nation's Report Card: Trends in Academic Progress 2012 was released, showing significant improvement in how well American students perform in reading and math over previous generations. 

The assessment, given to 26,000 students in each subject, shows marked progress in 9-year-old and 13-year-olds, especially minority students, but flat performance by most 17-year-olds.

Here is the statement from Brent Houston, principal of the Shawnee (Okla.) Middle School and a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Education Progress.

As the principal of  a middle School,  his comments are illuminating on both the good news in this 

Get Schooled: Campaign to let Georgia girl play football goes worldwide

Since we first met Maddy Paige Baxter  -- the middle school football player told by her private school that she could not longer play with the boys  next year in seventh grade-- her story has gone worldwide. I have received emails from media as far away as Great Britain ...