n The report highlights data such
as fourth grade reading scores, eighth grade math results and Kentucky's college - and career - readiness results showing a 30 percentage - point gap between students based on English language proficiency, a 25 percentage - point gap between African American and white students, a 20 percentage - point gap based on identified learning differences and also family income, and a 10 percentage - point gap between Hispanic students and their white peers.
Not exact matches
Figure 11 shows no significant difference between the
reading scores of
fourth -
grade students in Texas and in the nation
as a whole, except in 2003, and minimal improvement across the board.
Washington moved on,
as did Chris, and then a few years ago something funny happened: NAEP
scores in
fourth -
grade reading jumped significantly, especially for the low - income, low achieving students who were Reading First's
reading jumped significantly, especially for the low - income, low achieving students who were
Reading First's
Reading First's focus.
When the latest
scores of our country's national
reading test arrived this spring, they were
as depressing
as usual: Two - thirds of American
fourth - graders, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, can not
read at
grade level.
The results show average
reading scores in
fourth grade reading dipped to levels of a decade ago and eighth
grade scores declined
as well.
In
reading there have been gains in
fourth grade, but the national
scores for eighth graders were essentially the same in 2009
as they were in 1998.
NCES noted a troubling trend in
scores since two years ago: Even
as the status quo held stable for most test takers,
scores for the highest - performing eighth - graders (those
scoring at the 75th and 90th percentiles) nosed higher, while those for the lowest - performing students (those at the 10th and 25th percentiles) declined in
fourth -
grade math, eighth -
grade math, and
fourth -
grade reading.
Fourth grade reading and math proficiency
as well
as eighth
grade math proficiency have both garnered lower or the same
scores since 2011.
CHEYENNE — Overall, Wyoming's
fourth and eighth
grade students in 2017 continue to outperform national average test
scores in
reading and mathematics on the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress, known
as the Nation's Report Card or NAEP.
The state's 2017
reading results for
fourth grade are statistically the same
as the national average scale
score of 221.
Although there are a number of areas that appear to be sources of
reading difficulty, Valencia and Buly (2004) found that a substantial number of fifth
grade students who
scored below the proficient standard on a
fourth grade state
reading test exhibited difficulties in what the Common Core State Standards have identified
as a foundational
reading skill —
reading fluency.