Report on student science knowledge

But one national "report card" on test scores, released Tuesday morning, paints a dismal picture of how well the country’s students have mastered science.

Just 34 percent of fourth-graders, 30 percent of eighth-graders, and 21 percent of 12th-graders are performing at or above “proficient” in the most recent snapshot from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which gives science scores from 2009. A very small number – just 1 or 2 percent at each grade level – scored at the “advanced” level, and relatively large numbers of students didn’t even meet the most basic level. (Amanda Paulson at Yahoo news)

To read more, click the above hyperlinked text.  To see how North Dakota is doing, click here. (Across tested subject areas, ND is mostly above national averages.)