Sentences with phrase «4th grade reading proficiency»
The state fared better in education, improving in all of the indicators (pre-school attendance, 4th grade reading proficiency, 8th grade math proficiency, and high school graduation rates).
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Louise Slaughter: «By 4th grade, 86 percent of African - American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.»
Says «by 4th grade, 86 percent of African - American boys and 82 percent (of) Hispanic boys are reading below proficiency levels.»
To see whether states are setting proficiency bars in such a way that they are «lowballing expectations» and have «lowered the bar» for students in 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math, Education Next has used information from the recently released 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to evaluate empirically the proficiency standards each state has established.
Figure 1 shows a scatterplot of proficiency rates in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math as an example.
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the «Nation's Report Card,» «proficiency» rates last year were below 50 percent for every racial and ethnic group, in both reading and math, in both 4th and 8th grade.
Take reading, for example: According to the U.S. Department of Education; in 4th grade 44 % of white students, 16 % of black students, 28 % of Hispanic students and 57 % of Asian students are performing at or above proficiency.
White students in Kentucky are nearly twice as likely as African - American students to achieve reading proficiency by 4th grade.
New York's expectations are even higher than NAEP's: Proficiency rates on its 4th grade reading and 8th grade math tests are 3 percentage points to 10 percentage points lower than those rates on the NAEP, Achieve reports.
As an example, between 2005 and 2015, Kentucky's 4th - grade reading proficiency on the National Assessment of Educational Progress increased:
For example, 84 % of the reported improvement in 4th grade math proficiency between 2008 and 2009 and 69 % of the improvement in 8th grade reading proficiency could be attributed to the exclusion of these students.
While Louisiana's proficiency goal is for all students to be Basic and above, in the voucher schools, only 35 % of 3rd graders and 29 % of 4th graders earned scores indicating they are grade level proficient in reading.
Click here to view a comparison of state NAEP averages created by the U. S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences; you can also see charts here comparing each states» proficiency rates to those of NAEP for 4th and 8th grade reading along with charts for math and science.