| Title: | NAEP FACTS: Long-Term Trends in Student Reading Performance |
| Description: | Data from the NAEP 1996 Long-Term Reading Assessment show that overall student reading performance, as tested at age levels 9, 13, and 17, had increased for both 9- and 13-year-olds since the first assessment in 1971. Scores for 9- and 13-year-olds in most racial/ethnic and gender sub-groups reflected the overall increase. Black 17-year-olds were the only members of that age group to achieve an increase, and they did so while black dropout rates were declining. |
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| Cover Date: | January 1998 |
| Web Release: | February 10, 1998 |
| Print Release: | February 10, 1998 |
| Publication #: | NCES 98464 General Ordering Information |
| Center/Program: | NCES |
| Authors: | Sheida, White, Alan Vanneaman (ESSI) |
| Type of Product: | Issue Brief |
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National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) |
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