Report Card Day

Report card day. Every child knows the panicky feeling of stepping off of the bus knowing that their report card had already beat them home. In the following minutes, they would know how the following weeks would be. Parents would either reward them for their hard work or rebuke them for a lackluster performance.

Without this accountability many children would not have any reason or way to improve every period. In much the same fashion, states are susceptible to similar scrutiny. The National Center for Educational Statistics keeps track of nationwide educational progress by analysis of many different data and statistics. Each year, they release the Nation’s Report Card, detailing performance of each states educational progress.

If the statistics show that a state has made little progress, they will have to face the music, just like you did when you were a kid. This past year’s report card shows level of change at both the 4^th grade and 8^th grade levels. It also includes both state and national levels of analysis.

The NCES tracks performance in art, civics, economics, mathematics, reading, science, U.S. history and writing. There are archives and long-term trend trackers as well.

For 2009, the top story from the report card was reading performance. Being the area of learning that has shown the most stagnant performance increase at theses grade levels, reading improvement was a key focus of the report. Though it improved at the 8^th grade level, the 4^th grade reading competency remained unchanged.

For information on your states performance or what policy makers intend to do to improve for the next report card day, visit the National Assessment for Education Progress’ Web site. The statistics are even broken down by demographic and language.

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