US students score sweeping gains on tests

Christian Science Monitor: US students score sweeping gains on tests

Elementary and middle-school students are making significant improvements in math skills, while their gains in reading are more modest, according to national test results.

Washington – American students – black, white, Hispanic, rich, poor, male, and female – are improving in math and reading, especially those at the elementary level, where most of education reform has focused.

Those are the modest but positive results from Tuesday's release of the most influential test in US education, the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). …


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