Arkansas students’ scores on the standardized test known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” that is. The 2007 scores, released today, showed no statistically significant change from 2005 in Arkansas’s scores in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and math. But students nationwide improved overall, leaving Arkansas further down in the rankings. The gaps aren’t particularly gaping, however — a few points in each subject.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is given every two years in selected grades. About 11,000 Arkansas students took the 2007 exam.
Press release from the Arkansas Department of Education on the jump.
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