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Highly Qualified Teachers: A National Imperative

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Highly Qualified Teachers: Why?

NAEP 4th Grade Reading 2002 by Race & Ethnicity

This slide contains a bar chart with the following information:

Black:
13% Prof/Adv
28% Basic
60% Below Basic

Latino:
15% Prof/Adv
29% Basic
56% Below Basic

Native:
22% Prof/Adv
29% Basic
49% Below Basic

White:
41% Prof/Adv
35% Basic
25% Below Basic

Asian:
37% Prof/Adv
33% Basic
30% Below Basic

Explanation of slide: Shows a breakdown of NAEP 4th grade 2002 reading results by race and ethnicity. Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans scored far lower in reading than either whites or Asians.