Alabama Makes Notable Early Grade Gains on Nation’s Report Card
admin2025-02-05T10:39:32-06:00By Thomas Spencer on February 3rd, 2025 in : in Education & Workforce Development, Public Education, Uncategorized Alabama public school fourth graders are scoring higher in both reading and math than they did prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. Alabama and Louisiana are the only two states where that is true, according to an analysis of the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Printable PDF available here. In fact, in both reading and math, Alabama fourth graders scored close to the national average in 2024. That’s a remarkable turnaround from 2019, when Alabama 4th graders ranked at or near [...]