{"id":1746,"date":"2018-04-17T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2018-04-17T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T15:50:16","slug":"dont-believe-what-you-read-in-the-papers-american-kids-are-getting-better-at-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/dont-believe-what-you-read-in-the-papers-american-kids-are-getting-better-at-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Believe What You Read in the Papers: American Kids Are Getting Better at Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NAEP.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1747\" src=\"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NAEP-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NAEP-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NAEP.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Drum at <em>Mother Jones<\/em> magazine has an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2018\/04\/american-kids-keep-getting-better-and-better-at-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">excellent take<\/a> on the so-called &#8220;failure&#8221; of American students to improve their reading scores. It&#8217;s a quick but important read now that the annual NAEP Nonsense Season is once again in full swing, in which the media tells us how awful American schools are doing (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/education\/383464-education-report-card-shows-common-core-still-failing-us-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/articles\/2018-04-10\/naep-shows-little-to-no-gains-in-math-reading-for-us-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2018\/04\/-american-students-reading\/557915\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Reading scores for all groups have <em><strong>improved<\/strong><\/em> since 1998, as Drum points out, so of course this indicates that our schools are failing.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2018\/04\/american-kids-keep-getting-better-and-better-at-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also my take on NAEP scores from last year\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/the-new-york-times-goes-back-to-the-future-the-new-literacy-crisis-writing-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and David Berliner&#8217;s excellent analysis\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niusileadscape.org\/bl\/the-purported-failure-of-americas-schools-and-ways-to-make-them-better-by-david-c-berliner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Drum at Mother Jones magazine has an excellent take on the so-called &#8220;failure&#8221; of American students to improve their reading scores. It&#8217;s a quick but important read now that the annual NAEP Nonsense Season is once again in full swing, in which the media tells us how awful American schools are doing (e.g. here, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}