state ep8_m96
1. Louisian 7
2. Mississippi 7
3. Alabama 12
4. Arkan 13
5. WestVirginia 14
6. SouthCarolin 14
7. NewMexico 14
8. Tennessee 15
9. Hawaii 16
10. Kentuck 16
11. Georgia 16
12. Florida 17
13. California 17
14. Arizona 18
15. Delawar 19
16. NorthCarol 20
17. RhodeIsland 20
18. Texas 21
19. Virginia 21
20. Wyoming 22
21. NewYork 22
22. Missour 22
23. Utah 24
24. Indiana 24
25. Marylan 24
26. Colora 25
27. Washington 26
28. Oregon 26
29. Vermon 27
30. Massachuset 28
31. Michig 28
32. Alaska 30
33. Iowa 31
34. Connecticut 31
35. Nebrask 31
36. Maine 31
37. Montana 32
38. Wisconsin 32
39. NorthDakota 33
40. Minnesota 34
41. Ohio . # a "." indicates the state did not
participate in the 1996 NAEP
(which used to be voluntary)
42. Kansas .
43. SouthDakot .
44. Illinois .
45. Idaho .
46. Nevada .
47. Oklahoma .
48. Pennsylvania .
49. NewHampshire .
50. NewJersey .
Education Week on the Web's 1998 state report card (raw data matrix).
These data were extracted from--and then sorted by degree of
achievement (percent 8th graders proficient on NAEP math test).
Achievement:
Olson, L., Shining
a Spotlight on Results: Quality Counts '99, Education Week on the
Web, 18 (17) (1999).
EWW took its achievement data directly from NAEP results. The NCES provides an excellent summary of achievement results by state between 1990 and the present (nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/mathematics-g8). So informative a summary is this NCES table that it makes obvious that, year after year, state scores have increased--pick any state row and look across the year columns. Do you believe that the schools have become correspondingly better? If so, how to explain that U.S. students continue scoring lower than their international counterparts? Nevertheless, the NAEP was the best test the U.S. had. At the end of 2002 it lost its scientific governance, and so who knows what the most recent numbers mean.