{"id":297,"date":"2011-06-17T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T19:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.vcu.edu\/vcusochealth\/2011\/06\/17\/us-students-score-poorly-on-hi\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T19:39:42","slug":"us-students-score-poorly-on-hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/us-students-score-poorly-on-hi\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Students Score Poorly on History Exam (National Center for Education Statistics, June, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that few students were proficient in American history: 20% of&nbsp;4th graders, 17% of 8th graders and 12% of high school seniors demonstrated proficiency on the exam in 2010.&nbsp; Test results are from nationally representative samples of more than 7,000 4th graders, 11,000 8th graders and 12,000 12th graders.&nbsp; Other highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Average 4th grade&nbsp;test scores increased from 1994 to 2010, especially among the lowest-performing students.&nbsp; There were no significant increases in scores between 2006 and 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Average 12th grade test scores also increased from 1994 to 2010.&nbsp; There were no significant increases between 2006 and 2010.<\/li>\n<li>Among 8th graders, scores for black and Hispanic students increased between 2006 and 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the U.S. Department of Education <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/nationsreportcard\/pdf\/main2010\/2011468.pdf\"> report <\/a>or a&nbsp;New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/15\/education\/15history.html\">article<\/a> on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Related information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.societaldistress.org\/Content.aspx?ID=119\">education<\/a> can be found on our website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that few students were proficient in American history: 20% of 4th graders, 17% of 8th graders and 12% of high school seniors demonstrated proficiency on the exam in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,43,130,131,140],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-american-history","tag-education-2","tag-national-assessment-of-educational-progress","tag-neap","tag-proficiency"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/societyhealth.blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}