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Study shows test score improvements
- 09-17-2010
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Guest blog by Jack Jennings/Washington Post
An exhaustive study of five years of assessment trends shows that U.S. 4th and 8th graders are doing better in reading and math than they were in 2005. And that’s not just according to the states’ own tests used for No Child Left Behind accountability, but also according to the federally sponsored National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which tracks national and state-by-state progress in key subjects. This finding comes from the latest report of a careful independent study of state test score trends, now in its fourth year, by the Center on Education Policy. We analyzed trends from 2005 through 2009 because longer spans are less subject to random yearly fluctuations in test scores. (more…)
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