- U.S. reading and math scores show slight gains, By Motoko Rich, November 7, 2013, New York Times: “American fourth and eighth graders showed incremental gains in reading and math this year, but achievement gaps between whites and blacks, whites and Hispanics, and low-income and more affluent students stubbornly persist, data released by the Education Department on Thursday showed. The results of the tests — administered every two years as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, sometimes called the nation’s report card — continued an upward trend in both areas over the past two decades. But still, far less than half of the nation’s students are performing at a level deemed proficient in either math or reading…”
- US ‘report card’ for 2013: Student achievement creeps upward, By Amanda Paulson, November 7, 2013, Christian Science Monitor: “America’s students continue to make incremental improvements in math in fourth and eighth grades, and in eighth-grade reading. But schools and educators have made little progress on closing gaps in student performance by race – even over a two-decade period – and the gains that have been made are small ones…”
- U.S. students show incremental progress on national test, By Lyndsey Layton, November 7, 2013, Washington Post: “The nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders made incremental progress on math and reading tests administered earlier this year by the federal government, according to data released Thursday. The results detail performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, that U.S. students have taken every two years since the early 1990s. Also known as the Nation’s Report Card, it’s the country’s most consistent measure of K-12 progress…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty