L.A. was the only big district to improve student scores this year. Here's how they did it
Of the 26 large urban districts where NAEP assessments were given, Los Angeles was the only one to make gains in eighth-grade reading. The district attributes the improvements not to a radical approach, but to methodically deploying well-known strategies—offering a model for other districts to follow, particularly those that are high-poverty and serve mostly students of color like Los Angeles.
The NAEP tests, which were administered by the U.S. Education Department between January and March 2022, assess students’ progress in fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading, determining whether they have achieved “competency over challenging subject matter.”, which about 20% of students are now participating in, and a summer-school initiative that targeted students who needed the most help. That program brought about 110,000 students into school for 30 days of summer instruction.
Nationally, the average math score fell five points for fourth-graders and eight points for eighth-graders since 2019—the largest score declines since the NAEP was first administered in 1990. Average reading scores fell by three points for both fourth and eighth graders nationally. Los Angeles saw a four-point decline in fourth-grade math scores, but held steady or improved in the three other tested areas.
California’s Smarter Balanced assessment is administered every year to a broader range of grades than the NAEP, testing all students in third to eighth grade and 11th grade and assessing students based on the state’s Common Core standards for math and language arts. It’s not clear why the two assessments seem to diverge, though many experts view the NAEP as being the more rigorous assessment.
“There’s nothing in this data that tells us that there is a measurable difference in the performance between states and districts, based solely on how long schools were closed,” Carr said during the press call. “We have massive, comprehensive decline everywhere, whether in some cases they were in remote learning longer or shorter than others.”
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