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January 20, 2006 • Vol. XXIX • No. 21

Education by the Numbers

Facts about NJ’s public schools from the Nation’s Report Card

New Jersey’s ranking among the 50 states in the proportion of 4th-grade students scoring at the highest two levels in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the “Nation’s Report Card.”

The state’s ranking for 8th-grade NAEP reading scores.

New Jersey’s ranking nationwide in the number of 8th graders scoring at the highest two levels in math on the NAEP test.

The state’s ranking on 4th-grade NAEP math scores.

(Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Nation’s Report Card: Mathematics and Nation’s Report Card: Reading)