The state's
fourth grade math standards wouldn't have met the standards set by Singapore and the six other top - performing nations in that subject, according to the American Institutes for Research's own analysis of American curricula standards.
In
the fourth grade math standards, the Pennsylvania Core edits almost every CCSS and supplements with an additional 22 standards.
Not exact matches
In
math the graduates of the University of Florida, the state's premier university, outperformed the other institutions at teaching students in
fourth to eighth
grade by as much as 10 percent of a
standard deviation, even though NCTQ gave it no better rating than Florida State or Florida Atlantic.
If their state
standards had moved some portion of what used to be
fourth -
grade math to the fifth or sixth
grade, or replaced it with something else entirely, their state's NAEP scores would likely be lower.
Picture a
fourth grader who is doing
math at levels typical of the state's sixth -
grade academic
standards.
In the years immediately following the No Child Left Behind Act (2002 to 2005), about half of all states improved their average
fourth grade math achievement on NAEP at a rate faster than.08
standard deviations per year (which translates to 2.3 NAEP points).
Tennessee also had the lowest
standards on both 2009's
fourth and eighth
grade math exams, while Massachusetts led the pack with
standards above NAEP's
standard for «proficient.»
Achieve focused on
fourth grade reading and eighth
grade math standards in the report.
This post examines the CCSS for
fourth -
grade math and ELA, but we will eventually also analyze eighth
grade (we will also analyze non-Common Core states»
standards).
Dufrene recommended nearly 20 changes to the
fourth -
grade math standards alone.
While Nebraska saw an increase in
fourth -
grade reading scores, both Minnesota, which adopted the English Common Core
standards but not the
math standards, and Texas saw drops in
math scores.