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Study: Reading tests easier than math exams

NCLB Icon  The math tests students take under the No Child Left Behind law are harder than the reading exams, a study finds. The findings, in a study released by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington-based education think tank, come a little more than a week after the federal government reported students have been making much more progress in math than in reading in recent years. Read more of this article from MSNBC.com

Posted by Steve Groft on 04 October 2007 in Assessment , Issues in the News , Policy

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