Clearly, schools need more funding </sarcasm>
Has anyone noticed that the more money we throw at government schools, the worse they do?
WASHINGTON – National scores for reading in fourth and eighth grades dropped from 2017 to 2019, according to results released Wednesday.
Declines in the federally administered tests were recorded among students with the highest scores and among those with the lowest scores. In math, there was a small improvement among fourth-graders but a small drop in grade eight, driven by declines among lower-performing students.
National Assessment of Educational Progress tests, known as NAEP and often referred to as the “nation’s report card,” is a closely watched exam because it assesses the performance of children from all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds in urban, suburban and rural communities. The government first administered a version of the exam in 1990, and it tests fourth- and eighth-graders in math and reading every other year.
The results, reported on a 500-point scale, were based on testing of about 300,000 fourth-graders and 290,600 eighth-graders. The changes since 2017 were sometimes a shift of a single point, a small but statistically significant change.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/oct/30/math-reading-scores-drop-on-nations-report-card/