Thursday, March 25, 2010
Reading Scores Rise
KENTUCKY...
Education officials say Kentucky is the only state that reported increases in both fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores in a series of national achievement tests last year. The Kentucky Department of Education released the state results from the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Nationwide, reading scores for fourth- and eighth-grade students held mostly steady. In Kentucky, on a scale from 0 to 500, fourth-graders scored 226, up from 222 in 2007. Eighth-graders scored 267, up from 262. Both scores are higher than the national average of 220 and 262, respectively.
Education officials say Kentucky is the only state that reported increases in both fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores in a series of national achievement tests last year. The Kentucky Department of Education released the state results from the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Nationwide, reading scores for fourth- and eighth-grade students held mostly steady. In Kentucky, on a scale from 0 to 500, fourth-graders scored 226, up from 222 in 2007. Eighth-graders scored 267, up from 262. Both scores are higher than the national average of 220 and 262, respectively.
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