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Mathematics Student Groups

 

Exploring results for specific student groups provides additional context for the overall Mega-State results. The tables below show a comparison between public schools nationally and the five Mega-States.

The tables can be re-sorted to make additional comparisons, as follows:

  • Click on any "sort" button to order the Mega-States and the nation numerically by the data in that column.
  • Click on a jurisdiction to see how other jurisdictions compare in terms of statistical significance.

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Grade 8

  Black students in Texas made greater gains than their peers in the nation from 1990 to 2011.

Average scale scores for White and Black eighth-graders in NAEP mathematics, by jurisdiction: 1990 and 2011

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