South Dakota’s scores in fourth grade reading and math are the same as national averages.
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Results on national math tests given in the San Diego Unified School District among a sample of fourth-graders dropped at a more dramatic rate than the rest of the country, while local reading scores went virtually unchanged since 2013, according to The Nation’s Report Card: 2015 Mathematics and Reading.
Hispanics had a score that was 25 points lower than white students.
Math students do best in Charlotte, where over half of fourth graders are proficient or better, and almost 40 percent of eighth graders.
Kansas Education Commissioner Randy Watson said in a statement that the reason for the decrease isn’t clear.
“I do think we have work to do, especially when it comes to math at the middle-school level”, he said. “The uptick in JCPS scores indicates that the school system is making substantial progress in implementing new college and career-ready standards and important headway in boosting student achievement”. “The district’s results outpaced national trends in a number of areas at a time when averages across the country were significantly down”.
“The news isn’t great”, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told reporters. “We are not going to suggest any cause and effect at all, but there are multiple ways to look at this”. “It is clear that by raising education standards in Indiana, we are setting the bar high for Hoosier students”.
But Carr said it is unlikely that the misalignment was a major factor. “And there is nothing in that report that speaks directly to what the impact might be on [NAEP] scores themselves”. The trend is the same among Minnesota students’ math grades. Hogan says under O’Malley, the state excluded too many disabled students and English language learners from the tests, resulting in “misleading” numbers.
Tennessee’s NAEP scores fall below the national average, ranking 35th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
This time around, however, there’s not much to cheer about. The marginal improvements aren’t quite the flashy gains the district had hoped to see from 2012’s giant school tax and the Cleveland Plan for Transforming Schools. Eighth-grade reading results nationally declined to an average 265, from 268. “Of course we are disappointed” with the scores, she said.
“Big change never happens overnight”, Duncan said.
But Tennessee’s slight gains since 2013 were not statistically significant, and state officials later said it was not appropriate to describe the state as having higher scores.
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This means continuing the revamp of curricula and standards, overhauling how we recruit, train, evaluate, and compensate teachers, and using new approaches to building cultures of genius in which all children can thrive and succeed.
