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Military children stay a step ahead of public school students
- 12-12-2011
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By Michael Winerip/New York Times
The results are now public from the 2011 federal testing program known as NAEP, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. And once again, schools on the nation’s military bases have outperformed public schools on both reading and math tests for fourth and eighth graders. At the military base schools, 39 percent of fourth graders were scored as proficient in reading, compared with 32 percent of all public school students. Even more impressive, the achievement gap between black and white students continues to be much smaller at military base schools and is shrinking faster than at public schools. (more...)
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