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Mississippi Test Scores on the Rise
The math skills of US fourth- and eighth-graders declined for the first time since 1990, the results of a test released Wednesday by the Department of Education indicated. “There is no doubt that we’re asking more of teachers and students than ever before, and they are delivering”.
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Washington’s black students scored well below white classmates in the state, and the achievement gap for Washington’s black eighth-graders was significantly wider than the national average for black eighth-graders. “Now we are leading the way by administering the most honest assessments in the country, reducing testing to less than 1 percent of classroom time, introducing computerized testing and creating new opportunities for parents and teachers to give their feedback”. The Granite State sample was 52 percent male and 48 percent female, with 29 percent eligible for subsidized school lunch and 69 percent not eligible. “We like that for the reason that this was really an apples to apples comparison-from state to state”.
On the fourth-grade math tests, 43 percent of Colorado students scored proficient or better, down from 50 percent in 2013.
In eighth-grade reading, 73 percent of Georgia students performed at or above basic, while that figure was 75 percent in 2013 and 74 percent four years ago. This table, which compares Kentucky’s white Grade 4 NAEP Math Scale Scores to the national public school average for white students, provides insight. That joined a national trend where there were declines in all areas except fourth-grade reading.
A statewide glance at the scores shows that large achievement gaps persist between white students and black and Latino students. Eighth-grade scores declined as well.
But it also shows just how hard it can be to make dramatic progress.
“New York enrolls a lot of kids that come from groups that are lower scoring that push the overall score down relative to other states”, he explained. The exclusion rate for eighth grade dropped from 9.2 percent to 4.8 percent.
“I’ve said on a number of occasions that we should expect scores in this period to bounce around a few”, Duncan said.
“While we do need urgency, there’s also a need to focus on a strategy”, said Santelises, who was credited for helping increase city reading scores on the 2013 NAEP.
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Leading the nation in fourth-grade gains on the 2015 Nation’s Report Card, Mississippi demonstrated its highest gain in fourth-grade reading – six points – since the state began participating in the assessment. “So Texas’s raw score looks worse than Oregon, but it’s adjusted score looks better”, Chingos says. About 533,100 students took the tests nationally. The upcoming lawsuit between the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding and the state education department challenges Connecticut’s funding mechanism.