Nation's Report Card 2004

Recently, the National Center for Education Statistics released a new update to the Nation's Report Card, Long Term Trend Assessment Results 2004. This source data covers student performance in reading from 1971 to 2004 and student performance in mathematics from 1973 to 2004. Results are reported in three ways: by scale scores, by selected percentiles, and by percentage of students performing at or above each of five performance levels. The reading and mathematics long-term trend assessments refer to different student populations and measure different subject area skills from the main NAEP assessments.