Since 1990s, U.S. students’ math has sharpened, but reading lags

11-02-2011

By Sam Dillon/New York Times

Elementary and middle school students have improved greatly in math, but their reading skills have stagnated over the last two decades, federal officials said on Tuesday. The officials, who oversee the largest federal standardized testing program, used the release of scores from nationwide math and reading exams to highlight the contrasting long-term trends. “We’ve made major gains in math over two decades, but, in reading, frankly, we haven’t — there’ve been only modest improvements,” said David Driscoll, the chairman of the governing board that oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the Department of Education’s standardized testing program. Mr. Driscoll and other officials and experts put forward several hypotheses to explain the trends. (more...)

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