CNSNews.com) – Despite small gains in test scores over the past two years, only a third of 8th graders enrolled in the nation’s public schools can read and do math at grade level, according to the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released Thursday. (See NAEP.pdf)
NAEP reading and math tests, commonly known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” are administered to 4th and 8th graders across the U.S. every two years.
The average reading scores of 8th graders increased three points in 2013 compared to 2011, with 32 percent now considered proficient and 4 percent advanced on NAEP’s 500-point scale. However, that leaves 64 percent of students who will be heading to high school next year still not reading at grade level.
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There is a simply answer. The teachers are interested more in pay checks then teaching.
ReplyDeletea nation of clueless idiots that will be led like sheep by their government. Planned? what do you think???
ReplyDeleteThey are too busy teaching them how to be Muslims and homosexuals.
ReplyDeleteThey need the DOE to leave them alone and let them teach their subject, quit being so damn politically correct. Quit worrying about state and fed tests and just teach.
ReplyDeleteI agree with 10:01 am. Teachers interest in the kids is solely based on pay. There are some good teachers. But, majority of them (teachers) are concern about money.
ReplyDeleteDetroit has an illiteracy rate of 47% and that number includes voting aged adults !
ReplyDeleteIt starts at home. Most kids now are fully engrossed in video games,their iphone, never read at home, nor go to a library and the parent does not do anything educational with their children. Parents are the ones who bring this upon their kids and after middle school it is too late to catch up. Some parents let their children run them. The parents give them all kinds of presents instead of what they really need a parent. A few will have a developmental problem. Mostly the cause is parents who don't parent, don't pay attention in raising their child; forgetting education. It starts at home. Guaranteed, if a child can"t read, that child spends no time reading at home.
ReplyDeleteMr. Albero, I have a question to you.
ReplyDeleteI've been reading your blog regularly, and I am under impression that you are a person whose goal is to tell the truth. However, I see posts like this one appear every now and then.
The truth is until these numbers are broken down by race and IQ they are meaningless and misleading. It is amazing how many people do not understand one simple thing: there are kids who can be taught and the rest. No matter how talented and devoted a teacher is, she/he is not able to teach Algebra II or Chemistry to a kid whose IQ is around 80.
I perfectly understand that you do not want to be labeled as a racist, because that is what will happen if you start publishing the real numbers. After all quite a few people lost their jobs and careers when they dared to speak the truth.
With that said I see only two options. Either to really speak the truth, or to stop publishing statistics about illiterate 8 graders all together. On the other hand I understand that there might be some other goal that makes you post this info.
So my question is Why? Why posts like this appear?
I have a feeling though that my comment will be censored.
As a teacher, I really resent some of the comments made here. Educators can only do so much in a culture where reading is held in low esteem and parents do little to nothing to promote reading. Brain studies show that synapses are most highly developed by the age of six.... By the age of ten, the brain begins the pruning process. To develop synapses beyond the age of twelve takes much more effort than if parents spent the time to build the daily love of reading with their children when they are younger. Read to your childen; read to them everyday, no matter what, and promote readiNg whenever you can.
ReplyDeleteAs a teacher, I'm pretty tired of giving everything of myself, and hour upon hours of working with my students beyond hours paid to read comments like 10:01's or 10:25's. The writers on this board need to think before they type.
There are a lot of conservative teachers that go above and beyond, many right here on the shore, and we're getting a little tired of being the proverbial punching bag.
456: "I am under impression that you are a person whose goal is to tell the truth"
ReplyDeleteLOL, now I'm starting to doubt your IQ
919 why argue with fools? The only "information" these folks have about teachers is what Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck spoon fed them.
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