Achievement Gaps: How Hispanic and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress

Title:	Achievement Gaps: How Hispanic and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Description:	This report provides detailed information on the size of the achievement gaps between Hispanic and White public school students at the national and state levels and describes how those achievement gaps have changed over time. Additional information about race/ethnicity in NAEP is given in Appendix A. Most of the data in this report is derived from the results of the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) main assessments in mathematics and reading; however the trend data provided is derived from results from as early as 1990. Achievement Gaps: How Hispanic and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, follows our previous report that provided similar information on the achievement gap between Black and White students.
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Cover Date:	June 2011
Web Release:	June 23, 2011
Print Release:	June 23, 2011
Publication #:	NCES 2011459 General Ordering Information
Center/Program:	NCES
Authors:	F. Cadelle Hemphill and Alan Vanneman, NAEP ESSI; Taslima Rahman, NCES
Type of Product:	Statistical Analysis Report
Survey/Program Areas:	National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
Keywords:	Achievement • achievement gap Achievement (Student) • mathematics • reading Hispanics, Educational Progress NAEP Progress in Education • Hispanics
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