National Assessment of Educational Progress: Oklahoma, 4th grade Math and Reading

Sixty-seven percent of Oklahoma fourth graders were not proficient in math and 73 percent were not proficient in reading in 2011, according to the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, the most respected  nationwide test. Those figures remain and even worsen for eighth-grade students, and for both fourth and eighth graders in science and writing. Oklahoma’s students, on average, score below the national average on these various measures of basic academic proficiency.