Delay in Store for State Data on NAEP Reading Scores
Washington
The Department of Education will give every state an incomplete on its reading performance when it releases "the nation's report card" this week.
But the anticlimactic grade didn't come about because states failed to turn in their homework--it's because the department's contractor erred in its first attempt to grade it.
Even though "the impact of the error appears to be minimal," said Pascal D. Forgione Jr., the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, the department will not release on Feb. 10 a state breakdown of the 1998 National Assessment of Educational...
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