A video screen grab shows students at Casey Elementary School in South Korea taking part in a "Math Madness" event in January 2014.
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Stars and Stripes
Published: October 29, 2015
Students at military-run schools were among the top performers in this year’s national reading and math assessment, known as the “Nation’s Report Card.”
Fourth- and eighth-grade students within the Department of Defense Education Activity scored higher on average in reading proficiency than their peers across the nation, tied only with Massachusetts and New Hampshire, according to results released this month from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Fourth-grade math scores in DODEA schools ranked second in the country, tied with seven other states, while gaps between white and minority students remained among the lowest nationwide, a likely result of DODEA’s unique student population.
“We are pleased to be among the top performing states in the nation on the NAEP assessments for fourth- and eighth-grade reading and mathematics,” DODEA Director Thomas Brady said in a statement.
A yardstick for K-12 subject knowledge, the assessment on reading and math proficiency is administered to fourth- and eighth-grade students every two years. The results are frequently cited to compare school systems and judge student aptitude nationwide.
Math scores slipped nationwide this year for both grades, and they also fell for eighth-grade reading. Reading scores in grade 4 remained statistically unchanged.
DODEA was one of only three systems to improve its fourth-grade reading scores from the last test, in 2013. It also improved in fourth-grade math and eighth-grade math. Eighth-grade reading scores remained unchanged from the previous test.
The assessment showed room for improvement elsewhere, including proficiency in certain subjects. The percentage of eighth-graders considered at or above proficiency in math remained flat. DODEA schools also showed low rates of advanced proficiency in grade 4 math, especially when compared to other top performers on this year’s test.
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