How are our elementary school students doing on the reading front?
From a piece on the Federal Education Budget Project...
4th grade reading proficiency varies by region.
On average, a higher percentage of 4th graders in the Northeast United States and the Midwest scored proficient or above in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 2009 than in the South and the West. 1 In the Northeastern states, approximately 37 percent of 4th graders scored proficient or above in reading, while in the Southern states only 29 percent scored proficient or above. Of the 10 states with the lowest percent of 4th graders scoring proficient or above in reading, nine were located in the South or the West.
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