Urban reading scores show mixed results

Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress's (NAEP) 2007 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) were released on Thursday, November 15. Reading scores for fourth graders and eighth graders were generally the same or higher since 2002, when the TUDA began collecting these statistics from volunteer urban public school districts. However, comparing 2007 scores to 2005, only Atlanta and Washington, DC, posted reading gains among both fourth graders and eighth graders.

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