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December 8, 2011

Five Things to Understand About Ohio’s Performance on the Nation’s Report Card: Urban Edition

Etienne / Flickr Yesterday, results of national tests that compare student performance in math and reading among 21 big-city school districts were released. These tests, which are formally called the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s Trial Urban District Assessment, allow us to compare student performance among cities in different states. That’s something that we can’t [...]

November 3, 2011

Three Reasons Why Ohio Schools Get an “A” from the State and a “Meh” from the Nation

According to state standardized tests, Ohio’s fourth graders are doing better and better each year. The percentage of fourth graders who are on grade level in reading and math has grown every year since 2001. Today, about 80 percent of fourth graders are at least where they should be in reading and math. Go Buckeyes, [...]

November 1, 2011

Results on Nation’s Report Cards Show Little Movement in Ohio

The U.S. Department of Education ranks each states’ performance in a national report card every other year in what is known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. In Ohio, not much has changed over the last few years. The NAEP tests fourth and eighth graders in reading and math. Ohio saw improvement [...]

July 14, 2011

Why Reading and Math are Not Just for the College-bound

Recent cuts in federal funding for vocational and technical education have added more fuel to the “should everybody go to college” debate. Matthew Yglesias, a blogger for the Center for American Progress, writes that it’s “at least plausible” that some students might learn basic reading and math skills in a vocational setting. But the focus [...]

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