New Report Out on Achievement Gap

The Center on Education Policy has a new report out that charts trends in achievement gaps from 2002-2009 nationally and state by state. Data is based on state assessments and NAEP scores. Here are the four bullet points from the Executive Summary:
For New Jersey’s profile, trends in the achievement gaps were unavailable for 4th and 8th graders; because of our test changes, there's not enough data to draw comparisons.

Eleventh graders in NJ showed a slight narrowing of the achievement gap for math, as increases for white kids were smaller than increases for other subgroups. While white students increased scores by .5, African-American scores went up 1.0, Latino scores went up 1.6, and low-income went up 2.6 from 2002-2009.

Reading scores for 11th graders showed improvements for Latino and low-income students: white students increased scores by .4, Latinos by 1.1, and low-income by 1.6. However, African-American students increased reading scores by only .1, less than that of all other cohorts.