Twelfth-grade NAEP economics achievement-level results, by parental education level: 2006

Findings

• Eighty-seven percent of students with at least one parent who graduated from college performed at or above Basic in 2006.
• Fifty-nine percent of students whose parents did not finish high school performed at or above Basic.

To read more about achievement levels and how they are set, see Reporting the Assessment—Scale Scores and Achievement Levels.

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2006 Economics Assessment.