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Study Shows Reforms are Working
Montgomery Advertiser---A new national study of student achievement dramatically underscores what most observers of education in Alabama already knew: The state's academic reforms in early grades are working, but need to continue to be expanded to more schools and to higher grades.
The study by the Center on Education Policy, a national education advocacy group, looked at achievement levels in math and reading in all 50 states.
In Alabama, the CEP report found that from 2004 to 2007, elementary and middle school students made gains in both achievement and in closing the gaps in reading and math between racial and income groups. Similar gains held true for math at the high school level.
But unfortunately, reading achievement declined overall at the high school level in Alabama, and the gap between African American students and white students widened there as well.