Math NAEP Delivers Some Good News
The nation's 4th and 8th graders have earned another positive report card in mathematics, as their performance continued on a path of steady improvement that began a decade ago, according to the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
While the report released last week offers some welcome news on the progress schools are making in raising math achievement, education officials tempered their enthusiasm with concerns that most students are still not "proficient" in the subject, that the gap in the performance between white students and their black and Hispanic classmates has not narrowed, and that 12th graders have lost some of the ground gained since 1990.
"We are very pleased that the math scores are going up," Gary W. Phillips, the acting U.S. commissioner of education statistics, said of the report, which includes both national and state-level results. "We're not pleased, however, that the gap between the majority...
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