The scores look a lot more like
NAEP than in past years.
Not exact matches
The 2005 National Assessment of Educational Progress (
NAEP), the Nation's Report Card, showed that nine -
year - olds made «more progress
in reading over the
past five
years than in the previous 28
years combined... and posted the best scores
in math
in the history of the report.»
According to
NAEP results, released by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains
in fourth - grade reading, and over the
past eight
years has shown a greater increase
in scale
than any other state, moving from 207
in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale
in 2011.
On Tuesday, the same day
NAEP results went public, the Louisiana Department of Education announced (hat tip to the comms folks at LDOE on the timing) that the Class of 2017 was the first
in state's history to have more
than 50 percent of students qualify for the TOPS college scholarship program, thanks to the steady rise
in ACT scores over the
past six
years.