No gains in reading scores for Los Angeles fourth-graders

Math scores continued to rise in the Los Angeles Unified School District, but reading is showing no improvement with fourth-graders ranking among the lowest among urban districts, according to a federal report released Thursday, November 15, 2007. Every two years, 11 urban districts, including Los Angeles, test their fourth- and eighth-grade students in math and reading. The outcome of these tests, known as the Trial Urban District Assessment Results, are part of the National Assessment of Education Progress—commonly called “the nation’s report card.”

The results provide a look into the achievement in the nation’s urban schools and they echoed some of the concerns from the nationwide assessment. Those results released in September showed that while math scores rose, reading progress was mixed and the achievement gap between white and Asian students and their black and Latino counterparts remains wide. Read the article in The Los Angeles Times.