Average annual growth of black students' NAEP scale scores, selected periods, fourth and eighth grades, math and reading combined

LTT Main NAEP Average
1973–1980 0.6% 0.6%
1980–1992 0.3% 0.3%
1992–2000 0.2% 0.4% 0.3%
2000–2003 0.8% 1.1% 0.9%
2003–2011/12 0.4% 0.4% 0.4%
1973–2012  0.4%
1992–2011  0.5%

Note: For details, see Appendix Table 1, available at the end of this publication's Web page, https://www.epi.org/publication/unfinished-march-public-school-segregation

Source:  Author's calculations from NAEP Data Explorer and, for data prior to 1978, Campbell et al. (1996), Figures 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, and 7.2

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