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New Test Scores Released from NAEP

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The 2011 National Assessment of Education Progress scores were released this past week on the center’s Web site.

In the math section, 40 percent of fourth-graders and 35 percent of eighth-graders in our nation’s public schools scored proficient or advanced, the highest percentage seen since NAEP started over 20 years ago. In New York state, however, the public school students scored lower than the national average in math for the first time since the tests began.

In the reading section, 34 percent of eighth-graders in the nation’s public schools scored either proficient or advanced, a slight improvement from the previous year’s scores. The reading scores for fourth-graders remained the same as 2009, with 34 percent scoring proficient or advanced. In New York State, fourth-graders scored higher than the national average in reading, and eighth-graders didn’t score significantly different from the rest of the country.

-By Elise Grace

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