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In California, the 27 - point gap in average 4th - grade reading scores between whites and Hispanics in 2017 is among the biggest in the nation.

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Between 2007 and 2009, Fryer distributed a total of $ 9.4 million in cash incentives to 27,000 students in Chicago, Dallas, and New York City, incentivizing book reading in Dallas, test scores in New York, and course grades in Chicago.

According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, the gap in eighth - grade reading and math test scores between low - income students and their wealthier peers hasn't shrunk at all over the past 20 years.

Using income as well as math and reading scores, the study also found that the lower the household income during infancy, the worse the children's performance on reading and math in fifth grade — replicating the well - known gap between income and achievement.

However, researchers found no generalizable, causal links between studying the arts and improvement in SAT scores, grades, or reading scores.

Between 2004 and 2014, the percentage of students scoring at or above grade level in reading, writing, and math increased from 33 to 48, far faster than the state average.

Thus, I also assume that the state made no meaningful gains in 4th - grade reading between 1998 and 2000 that would have shown up on NAEP, which squares with the scores on the state's own reading assessment.

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.

At the 4th grade level in math and reading, D.C. students gained 6 scale score points between 2007 and 2009, while the average gain in the other districts was only 1 point and 2.2 points, respectively.

Despite widening gaps between highest - and lowest - scoring students, average scores in reading and mathematics were essentially flat from 2015 to 2017, with the exception of eighth - grade reading scores, where the percentage of proficient students increased by two percentage points.

At the 4th - grade level, D.C. students in math and reading gained 6 scale score points between 2007 and 2009, while the average gain in the other 10 cities for which comparable data are available was only 1 point and 2.2 points, respectively.

Between 1992 and 1998, Florida's average NAEP score in 4th - grade reading dropped by two points.

We measured value - added with the average change in combined reading and math scores for a school's students between the end of 3rd grade and the end of 4th grade; we measured cross-cohort changes with the change in 4th grade scores from one year to the next.

For reading between 2003 - 09, Janey accounted for 65 % of the total gain in NAEP scores over grades 4 and 8, and Rhee accounted for 35 %.»

In reading scores, two of the four within - cohort comparisons reveal a widening of the black - white gap as children move through school: between the 1st and 2nd grades, the gap grew one - third of a standard deviation larger, and another one - fifth of a standard deviation larger between grades 3 and 5.

The one exception was eighth - grade reading, with the average score rising by one point between 2015 and 2017.

In the GOP Assembly plan, both the board and DPI would establish criteria to determine a school's letter grade, including test scores on math and reading, graduation and attendance rates, and the closure of achievement gaps between groups of students.

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.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincReading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincreading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sincescores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped sinceScores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

When over 80 % of our children can not read proficiently by the third grade, it is a travesty of enormous proportions, particularly when compared with the TAKS reading test results (even after a significant standard deviation adjustment), their comparison with national norm - referenced test scores, and the wide gap between scores of white and minority children.

National averages on the 4th and 8th grade mathematics and reading tests were between 12 and 18 test - score points lower for students with poor attendance than for their peers who hadn't missed any school in the reporting period, the analysis found.

In a statement made last week, Levesque said Arizona had been on the same track, and had been painting a «picture of overwhelming success,» despite a 49 - point gap between fourth grade reading scores on state and national assessments.

If we mark the NLCB era from the 2002 test administration, then we have to conclude that, in the 8th grade reading NAEP, the gap in scores between white and black students has closed a grand total of one point.

Meanwhile, 8th grade reading scores were even worse — with 8th graders in 2015 also performing no better overall than in 2000, but with the gap between Black and White students remaining unchanged in that time and the gap between students in poverty and students not in poverty growing from 13 points to 23 points.

[4] All six districts that participated in the 2002 TUDA reading assessment for fourth grade showed an increase in scores between 2002 and 2011.

In addition to numerical scores from a standardized test she administers herself at the beginning of the school year, there's a note to a student telling him he's between a fifth - and sixth - grade reading level: «Please push yourself very hard to be ready for seventh grade.»

Between 1998 and 2007, Delaware led the nation in narrowing the minority student achievement gap in fourth - grade math and eighth - grade reading scores.

The ACT researchers found through their research, published as «Reading Between the Lines,» that our typical high school graduates, even though fully qualified for college by their grades and either SAT or ACT scores, were still demonstrably unprepared for the reading demands of either the college classroom or the typical worReading Between the Lines,» that our typical high school graduates, even though fully qualified for college by their grades and either SAT or ACT scores, were still demonstrably unprepared for the reading demands of either the college classroom or the typical worreading demands of either the college classroom or the typical workplace.