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This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards, as article. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (June 2024) First Lady Barbara Bush with New York City school children at the UNESCO International Literacy Day celebration in 1989 (the same year that the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy was launched) Adult literacy in the United ...
Well, The New York Times reported on my home state being a model – trust me, this is a rare occurrence. In six years, Mississippi went from 49th to 29th in student reading performance.
In both cases, the reading scores were lower than in the first year of testing, in 1992. And in the case of eighth-graders, it was the lowest score ever recorded. (Scores were down last year and ...
State/Territory Students (autumn 2014) Students (autumn 2016) students (autumn 2018) 98 106 114 Brownsville ISD: Texas: 48,355 46,880 44,402 115 119 117 United ISD:
On the other end of the spectrum, 48% of the state's about 45,000 graduates left high school without achieving at least one of the state's career readiness indicators. Below are the percentage of ...
State assessments are placed onto a common scale defined by NAEP scores, which allows states' proficiency standards to be compared not only to NAEP, but also to each other. NCES has released the Mapping State Proficiency Standards report using state data for mathematics and reading in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and most recently 2013. [13]
The third-ranking state, Maryland, ranked 11th on SAT scores and 13th on ACT scores. It had the 10th highest share of schools ranked in the top 700 schools nationwide.
The state with the highest percentage of people having a bachelor's degree or higher educational attainment was Massachusetts at 50.6%, and the lowest was West Virginia at 24.1%. The District of Columbia had a percentage significantly higher than that of any U.S. state at 63.0%. [1]