Tag: NAEP
July 10, 2012
July 10th, 2012
National News The New York Times The opportunity gap An op-ed by David Brooks Equal opportunity, once core to the nation’s identity, is now a tertiary concern. According to a study by Harvard’s Robert Putnam, a generation ago, working-class parents spent slightly more time with their kids than college-educated parents. Now college-educated...VIEW ARTICLE
2011 NAEP Results Released…We Have a Long Way to Go
November 2nd, 2011
On November 1, the National Center on Education Statistics released the 2011 NAEP results, the national benchmark exam given to a representative sample of 4th and 8th graders across the country (including Delaware). Education stakeholders across the country nervously anticipated the results, worried about how a decrease in education funding and...VIEW ARTICLE
State Test Scores Released Today
July 21st, 2011
The Delaware Department of Education just released the results of the new Delaware Comprehensive Assessment System (DCAS) for the 2010-11 school year. Here’s what we can expect from the first-year results and how we can use and interpret them. In previous years, students took the Delaware Student Testing Program (DSTP), a paper-and-pencil test...VIEW ARTICLE
National History Test Results Show Limited Growth
June 29th, 2011
The 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results in U.S. history were recently released, providing insight into educational progress since the exam was first administered in 1994. NAEP is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), an entity within the U.S. Department of Education, and tests public and...VIEW ARTICLE