Back in 2007, New York State’s education department announced that 68 percent of fourth graders and 57 percent of eighth-graders in the state achieved the top two levels on its battery of exam, or equivalent to Proficient and Advanced on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. This sounds great, of course, until one realized that only 36 percent of the Empire State’s fourth graders and 33 percent of eighth-grade students scored at Proficient and Advanced levels on the 2007 NAEP.
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