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National math and reading scores remain constant, but disparities emerge
Keywords: U.S. Reading Scores, U.S. Math Scores,
Tags: Current Focus, United States,
The National Assessment of Education Progress, NAEP, which is a report card of educational levels in the U.S. secondary school system shows 36% of fourth graders in the U.S. are proficient in reading for 2017. For eighth graders this drops to 34% in 2017. This shows that a little over a third of fourth and eight graders are achieving proficiency in reading, a glaring sign of failure leaving about two thirds of young people behind. With declining level of reading proficiency and proliferation of social media, the bottom 25% are faring much worse than even this dismal result.
Between 2015 and 2017 there was no improvement in NAEP scores.
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