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A WP front-page piece reports that a rigorous test of science knowledge, given to 130,000 students nationwide, shows that upwards of 40 percent of high-school seniors, and more than one-third of fourth- and eighth-graders, couldn't meet minimum academic expectations.
Math achievement did show significant improvement, especially for fourth- and eighth-graders, but three-quarters of the fourth-, eighth-, and 12 th -graders surveyed continued not to meet the goals panel's math performance standard.
An accompanying chart shows that 30 percent of fourth- and eighth-graders met the goals panel's performance standard in reading in 1996, only one statistically insignificant percentage point greater than in 1992; for 12 th -graders, the 36 percent who met the performance standard was four percentage points less than in 1992.
Want to guess the total number of eighth-graders in Washington, D.C. achieving a score of "advanced" on the test?
Afterward, he gave an eloquent speech in which he unveiled a second major education policy initiative dealing with charter schools, reorganizing federal education programs, and a proposal that vaguely resembles national testing for third- through eighth-graders.