Nevada students continue to trail the rest of the United States in mathematics and reading on this year's National assessment of educational progress, also called the nation's report card.
On Tuesday, the U.s. Department of Education released test results provided this year for fourth-grade students at 760,000 and an eighth, who is seen as a milestone in education. Students can score in the range 0-500, with a score of 250 scale equivalent to a score of 50 percent.
For a sampling of Nevada four-classroom tested, score average is 47 per cent in mathematics and 43 percent in reading. For eighth-grade, the average score was 56 per cent in mathematics and 52 percent in reading.
Although the results of the excited state rankings keep Nevada under a quarter of all countries, there is a silver lining, Nevada's Superintendent of Public Instruction Keith Rheault said.
Nevada students have failed to reach the national average in math or reading since the games are National testing began in 1990, but the two Nations and Nevada students increase their average score with each test administration. Nevada students just couldn't catch up, said Rheault. The country was climbing upward curve as the same nation as a whole, only on a parallel course, lower.