01/31/2008

U.S.A. Fails to Show Reading Progress

"Reforms aimed at improving reading achievement seem to have propelled Russia, Hong Kong, and Singapore from middle to top rankings on an international assessment of literacy skills, even as U.S. performance stood still," according to results reported in Education Week (December 5, 2007; www.edweek.org). This story reports...

"American 4th graders failed to show progress, despite spending more time on reading lessons than their peers internationally" ... participating ... "in the Progress on International Reading Literacy Study.... The United States' average combined score for literacy and informational reading was 540 on a 1,000 point scale, statistically the same as in 2001."

Here are 2006 results...

• 565 Russia
• 564 Hong Kong
• 560 Alberta, Canada
• 558 British Columbia, Canada
• 558 Singapore
• 557 Luxembourg
• 556 Ontario, Canada
• 551 Hungary
• 551 Italy
• 549 Sweden
• 548 Germany
• 547 Belgium
• 547 Bulgaria
• 547 Netherlands
• 546 Denmark
• 542 Nova Scotia, Canada
• 541 Latvia
• 540 United States
• 539 England
• 538 Austria
• 537 Lithuania

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