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Papers Good News on America's Education Report Card (CBS News) "The National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation's report card, charts student achievement and how it changes. It is the latter measure — changes since the last writing test in 1998 — that offers some good news, results released Thursday show." "Students in fourth and eighth grade showed significant strides in being able to handle challenging writing assignments and applying knowledge to real-life situations." "Even the signs of improvement must be considered in context: Most students in the three benchmark grades still can't provide coherent answers with clear language, supporting details, accurate punctuation and creative thinking." 7-03 Math Scores Up (USA Today) "From understanding algebra to analyzing data, the nation's fourth-graders and eighth-graders are getting better at math, new test scores show." 11-03 Poor Marks for U.S. Education System (CBS News) "South Korea has the most effective education system in the world's richest countries, with Japan in second place and the United States and Germany near the bottom, a United Nations study said Tuesday." "The ranking 'provides the first "big picture" comparison of the relative effectiveness of education systems across the developed world,' the UNICEF study said." " 'It is based not on the conventional yardstick of how many students reach what level of education, but on testing what pupils actually know and what they are able to do,' UNICEF said." Reading and Math National Assessment Results Released (NCES) "NCES' National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released the results of its 2003 reading and mathematics assessments today." 11-03 Study: American Students Doing Badly (ABC News) "In a study of how good 15-year-olds are in math, the 'big, bad' USA ranked 24 out of 29 countries. That's behind the Czech Republic. Behind New Zealand. Twenty-fourth out of 29!" "It's not bad enough that the United States ranked near the bottom of the list. What's more disturbing is that our students actually did worse than they did the last time the test was given. The results from the first test embarrassed U.S. educators. They discussed plans to do something radical to improve math studies. Obviously, not much happened, because U.S. kids on the latest test fell behind three more countries: Hungary, Poland, and Spain." "If the test had simply asked students to solve an equation, or answer a multiple-choice question, U.S. students would have done OK. But researchers wanted to see how well students could use the math they learned in a real world situation." 12-04

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