Parents: get your kids the heck out of the failing government schools!
Can you really afford a lost decade of education for your kids?
Reading and math proficiency isn’t improving for fourth- and eighth-graders, according to the 2017 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), known as the “nation’s report card.” Thebest students did better and the worst students did worse, widening achievement gaps. Except for a slight uptick in eighth-grade reading since 2015, scores remained about the same.
It’s been a“lost decade”for educational progress, writes Mike Petrilli.
Hechinger’s Jill Barshay calls it a decade of stagnation.
Table 1: Statistically significant changes in national results from 2013–17
NAEP reading and math scores improved steadily until the late 2000s, then “flatlined,” writes Barshay. “In reading, 37 percent of fourth-graders and 36 percent of eighth-graders were proficient. In math, 40 percent of fourth-graders and 33 percent of eighth-graders hit this threshold.”
