Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 16. November 2011 01:25
In a November 15, 2011 article online, Education Week reported a decrease in the number of students with disabilities and English-language learners excluded from the 2011 reading and mathematics components of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The 2011 NAEP inclusion goals for fourth and eighth graders were set at 95 percent of all students and 85 percent of students with disabilities and English-language learners. The 2011 decline in exclusions is consistent with trends seen over the past decade, but “many states still have far to go to reach the inclusion targets set for them last year by federal policymakers.”
NAEP’s 2011 Nation’s Report Card contains the NAEP findings in reading and mathematics and can be downloaded at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/.
