Test results show state curriculum is working

Georgia education officials say new national test results show that the states’ curriculum revisions are working.
Georgia's fourth and eighth graders have almost caught up with the national average in reading but they still lag in mathematics.
Georgia students performed better than they ever have on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The federal test is considered the best state-to-state measure of classroom progress.
The Department of Education credits the new reading curriculum which has bee in place for two years. The new math curriculum however had not started until this school year. Georgia's fourth graders scored an average of 219 on the reading
test, just one point below the national average. In math they were four point below the average. Eighth graders scored two points below the average in reading and six points below for math.