Students Aren't Learning Math. Can NCLB Help?

Seyward Darby:

New statistics show that U.S. students are struggling to learn basic math. The 2009 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in math, a test given every two years to fourth- and eighth-graders nationwide, were released this week. Although average overall scores have doubled since the NAEP was introduced in 1990, results have completely flat-lined among fourth-graders, and the achievement gap between white and black students isn't narrowing.

The New York Times notes that such trends could be linked to the enactment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2002:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 22, 2009 9:22 AM
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