Miller, Holt Statement on NAEP Science Report Card
WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rush Holt (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the National Assessment Governing Board’s report card on the performance of U.S. eighth grade students in science from the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
“The NAEP Science 2011 report card contains good news for science education citing numerous examples of improvements in science performance scores across the country. We must continue to build off this progress and reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) with a strong focus on science education. Unfortunately, the partisan ESEA reauthorization bill the Republicans pushed through the Education and the Workforce Committee earlier this year completely ignores science education. Our economy depends on an educated and skilled workforce to be successful in the global market. Science education is a key component to that success. ”
NAEP, which is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics within the U.S. Department of Education, is the only continuing and nationally representative assessment of what students in the United States know and how they perform in certain subjects.
The Nation’s Report Card: Science 2011 is available at www.nationsreportcard.gov. Visit www.nagb.org/science2011 for more information on recent results.
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