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10.20.05

First NAEP Report Card since NCLB

Posted in Math, Teacher Training at 11:50 am by leingang

The latest report of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was released yesterday. It’s the first such report since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act 0f 2002. NAEP is based on tests of 4th- and 8th-graders across the country and is administered every two years.

Unfortunately, as the Washington Post and New York Times are reporting, the results are not so good. Reading scores are down, and although math scores are up, they didn’t increase as much as they did in the last testing period.

It’s hard to say what this means for college educators, except that these students will eventually be our students. Understanding our students’ backgrounds, and the fact that they will have been educated in this test-driven scheme, will be critical in the future.

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