Achievement Gaps--How Black and White Students in Public Schools Perform on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Highlights

摘要

Achievement gaps between Black and White students students are featured in every major National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report card. The report, Achievement Gaps: How Black and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, examines achievement gaps more closely, and provides a detailed portrait of how achievement gaps and Black and White students performance have changed over time at both the national and state levels. This report uses data from two assessmentsmain NAEP and Long-Term-Trend (LTT). While both programs assess reading and mathematics, they have three major differences: (1) main NAEP assesses performance of fourth and eighth graders, while LTT assesses performance of 9- and 13-year-olds; (2) main NAEP reports results for both the national and state levels, while LTT reports results for the national level only; (3) main NAEP was first administered in the 1990s, while LTT was first administered in the 1970s.