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Article: 89 PERCENT OF THIRD-GRADE STUDENTS, 82 PERCENT OF FIFTH-GRADE PUPILS PASS READING TAKS IN ENGLISH
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 9, 2007
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The Texas Education Agency issued the following news release:
Eighty-nine percent of Texas' third-grade students and 82 percent of fifth-grade students passed the high-stakes Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills reading test, an exam they must pass to be promoted to the next grade.
That represents a two-percent increase in passing rates at the fifth grade. Passing rates on the first administration of the third-grade test have been stable for the last three years.
Results released today by the Texas Education Agency show that 258,368 of the 291,694 third-grade students who took the test in English passed it, and 103,796 or 36 percent of those tested reached the Commended Performance ...