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April 7, 2010

What NAEP reading scores really show

Daniel Willingham:

As Chad Aldeman pointed out at the Quick and the Ed, many major newspapers missed the story on the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress scores. The New York Times bemoaned that fourth-grade reading scores have barely increased since the early 1990s.

Aldeman pointed out that reading scores look somewhat better if you separate the data by race, as shown here.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 7, 2010 2:40 AM
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