Everyone’s got slightly different things to say about the NAEP history and civics scores released yesterday: Basic scores are up, but not proficient or advanced. NCLB is holding history back, or helping kids read better. Younger kids are doing better than last time, but not older kids. You get the idea.
Students Gain Only Marginally on Test of U.S. History NYT
More than half of high school seniors still showed poor command of basic facts like the effect of the cotton gin on the slave economy or the causes of the Korean War.
More Students Know Basics of History SF Chronicle
More students are learning the basics when it comes to history and civics, but they aren’t rising to the next level, national tests show.
Fourth-Graders Improve History, Civics Scores Washington Post
The nation’s fourth-graders have shown significant gains in U.S. history and civics test scores, federal researchers reported yesterday, a development that -- coupled with similar recent advances in reading, math and science -- experts attribute in large part to an intense national focus on reading.
Social Studies: Can’t Get No Respect? AJC
The percentage of students scoring in the “proficient” range in U.S. history at each grade level was basically the same as the previous exam. That stagnant pattern also held true in civics. Although, on each test, some improvement was made in the percentages of students scoring at the “basic” level.
US students aren’t history whizzes, but they’re improving Christian Science Monitor
The latest national report card: younger students are gaining, while high-schoolers show little progress.