Nation's Report Card Shows Children With Disabilities Lagging #NAEP scores

The Center for Education Statistics released the national NAEP scores recently, and the results show children with disabilities performance behind their typically developing peers.

Here is part of a report at Disability Scoop:

"A routine look at how fourth and eighth graders across the country are performing in reading and math finds children with disabilities struggling to make progress.

For fourth graders with disabilities math scores were down in 2017 compared to 2015 while reading was unchanged. Meanwhile, eighth graders with disabilities saw a slight increase in performance on reading but remained stagnant in math.

The findings released this week from the government’s National Center for Education Statistics come from the 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Known as the Nation’s Report Card, nearly 585,000 students at over 28,000 schools across the country took the test on tablet computers in early 2017. 

The assessment found limited improvement for the nation’s students on the whole with a small uptick in reading scores among eighth graders, but scores holding steady in all other categories...

Among those with disabilities, the average math score for fourth graders dipped to 214 from 218 in 2015, while eighth graders averaged 247, the same as in 2015.

In reading, students with disabilities in the fourth grade were steady at 187 while the average score for eighth graders climbed to 232 from 230 in 2015. All scores are out of a possible 500 points."

Here is the response of the Secretary of Education.  Here are the highlights of the report. You can use the data tools provided to see the group scores and gaps {including students with disabilities} for math here. You can search all sorts data with the data tool.