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NECAP Scores Are In; Math and Reading Up, Writing Down.

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New Hampshire students continue to improve academically, according to the resultsof the latest round of standardized tests.

The New England Common Assessment Program, or NECAP, test students in grades 3 through 8 and eleventh graders.

The test shows that 67% of all students are proficient in math, up two percentage points from last year. 79% are proficient in reading, and only 54% are proficient in writing.

But New Hampshire’s scores have improved modestly since the test began seven years ago.

DoE Commissioner Virginia Barry says the results show that while New Hampshire students excel in math at grade 3, by grade 8 their scores are around the regional average.

The DoE says these results lend credence to the idea that schools need trained Elementary School Math specialists if New Hampshire is going to improve. 

 

 

Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. He shifted gears in 2016 and began producing Outside/In, a podcast and radio show about “the natural world and how we use it.” His work has won him several awards, including two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, one national Murrow, and the Overseas Press Club of America's award for best environmental reporting in any medium. He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader and a technical supporter.
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