Getting State Standards Right in the Early and Middle Grades

SREB states were among the first in the nation to set comprehensive state standards for K-12 schools. But setting standards is only part of the job. Getting the standards right and keeping them right may be the most important task facing public education today. This report recommends the use of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) as a yardstick for state standards and includes state profiles of student performance on standards and NAEP assessments for each SREB state.

• Achievement in the early grades for all groups of students exceeds national averages and performance gaps are closed.
• Achievement in the middle grades for all groups of students exceeds national averages and performance gaps are closed. 

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Catalog information: (06E19); 32 pages; 2006; $5

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