Education Week – Catherine Gewertz
“A new report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better known as NAEP, breaks out vocabulary scores from its reading assessments, and it shows some uninspiring results. Overall, students aren’t getting much stronger at deducing the meaning of words from their context…The big-picture results show some sobering stuff. Achievement gaps by race and income are big at the 4th and 8th grade levels, and even bigger by high school…Students of all stripes show a mix of weakness and strength in their grasp of common vocabulary words.”(more)