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Are the Nation’s Fourth Graders Failing at Reading?

Published:2024-09-04 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:0161-4681
Container-title:Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education
language:en
Short-container-title:Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

Author:

Cervetti Gina N.¹,Hinchman Kathleen A.²

Affiliation:

1. University of Michigan, MI, USA

2. Syracuse University, NY, USA

Abstract

Each biannual release of fourth-grade scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in reading brings a new round of claims that a large majority of U.S. students are performing below grade-level expectations—a national reading crisis. In this commentary, we interrogate these claims, concluding that they represent a misreading of the data. In addition, we discuss how NAEP scores should, instead, inform conversations about achievement and equity.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Link

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01614681241277291

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