Students with disabilities continue to struggle to make progress in math and reading, according to a new report issued by the National Center for Education Statistics. Known as the ‘Nation’s Report Card,’ nearly 585,000 students at over 28,000 schools across the country took the electronic test in 2017. The assessment found limited improvement for the nation’s students on the whole, with a small uptick in reading scores among eighth graders.
For students with disabilities, the results were mixed. Math scores for fourth graders with disabilities were down, compared to 2015; reading was unchanged. Math scores for eighth graders with disabilities remained flat, while reading performance was up slightly. Among those with disabilities, the average math score for fourth graders dipped to 214 from 218 in 2015, while eighth graders averaged 247, the same as in 2015. In reading, students with disabilities in the fourth grade were steady at 187 while the average score for eighth graders climbed to 232 from 230 in 2015. All scores are out of a possible 500 points.
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