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Friday, November 15, 2013

State Superintendent Randy Dorn on Washington’s 2013 NAEP scores drawing national attention

On Thursday, November 7, 2013 the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction released impressive results from the 2013 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). Below is a statement from State Superintendent Randy Dorn about the phone call he received from U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan celebrating this success.

By Randy Dorn

Despite an underfunded education system, our state continues to outperform most other states on national assessments. Year after year.

Our students’ high performance on the 2013 NAEP caught the attention of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. He called me, personally, to congratulate our hardworking teachers and principals on a job well done:
  • Washington is one of the fastest improving states in the country. 
  • We improved in every category. 
  • We have made remarkable progress.


NAEP scores:

WA
Nation
2011
2013
2011
2013
4th-grade Reading
221*
225
220
221
8th-grade Reading
268*
272
264*
266
4th-grade Math
243*
246
240*
241
8th-grade Math
288
290
283*
284
*Significantly different from 2013

And it’s not just NAEP scores. We also beat the national average in SAT scores. And ACT scores. We must celebrate this success and acknowledge the good work being done in our schools. We need to make sure this news gets the attention it deserves.

And when our schools receive adequate resources to support basic education, the news will be even better.

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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousNovember 16, 2013 at 8:23 AM

    Dorn and Duncan should also acknowledge that Washington hasn't made the tests as high stakes as they are in other states - which is good. Kids' future should not be based on test scores. Nor should teachers, for that matter. Washington State has managed to keep some semblance of sanity in this No Child Left Untested/Race To The Bottom farce, yet still perform well on the only test that has any remote bit of credibility left, the NAEP. Unfortunately there have been too many years of unqualified idiots running the Dept of Education - Paige, Spellings, and now Duncan, who has no clue what a public school is even like. Ideology and profit are running our education system these days, not research and what is best for kids. Standardized test scores these days are more representative of zip code than anything else.
    -A

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