Notable K-12 progress in peer state reveals solutions for Oklahoma

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Written By Wendy Pratt

April 7, 2025

By Wendy S. Pratt

The Nation’s Report Card for 2024 shows only one state performing higher on the Grade 4 Reading test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) than before the pandemic. In 2019, Louisiana ranked 49th nationally for fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores on the NAEP; the latest results rank Louisiana at 16th and 29th respectively.

These facts I discovered after completing my analysis of the 2024 data, a process I first needed to do in 1996 and now do out of sheer curiosity. … Read more here or the original on LinkedIn.

Wendy Pratt
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