The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has just released the 2009 Science results for 17 urban districts and for large cities nationally in The Nation’s Report Card: Science 2009 TUDA. The 2009 NAEP Science TUDA assessed representative samples of between 900 and 2,200 fourth- and eighth-grade public school students in each of the 17 participating urban districts. The results of the assessment will be presented and discussed in a live webcast at 10:00 a.m. EST. Tune in to ask the panelists your questions. Then, at 1:30 p.m. EST, Associate Commissioner Peggy Carr answers your questions at Ask NAEP, a live Q&A about the results of the TUDA assessment. Visit http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard to watch the webcast or to submit a question for Ask NAEP. Highlights of the results from the 2009 Science TUDA assessment include:
- Four TUDA districts (Austin; Charlotte; Jefferson County, KY; and Miami-Dade) had higher scores at both grade 4 and grade 8 than large cities nationally. San Diego and Boston had higher scores at grade 4 only, and Houston had higher scores at grade 8 only.
- Eight TUDA districts had lower scores than large cities nationally at both grades.
- In Austin, Houston, and Miami-Dade, eighth-grade Hispanic students scored higher than their peers in the nation.
- At grade 4, both the White-Black and White-Hispanic achievement gaps were smaller in Boston , Cleveland, and Philadelphia than the gap in large cities nationally.
- Miami-Dade achieved a smaller White-Hispanic gap than the national White-Hispanic gap at both grade 4 and grade 8.
- Black students at grade 4 in Boston and Charlotte had higher scores than Black students nationally.
- Students at grade 4 who were eligible for the National School Lunch Program had higher scores in 7 of the 17 participating districts than eligible students in large cities nationally.
The Nation’s Report Card: Science 2009 TUDA is a product of the National Center for Education Statistics at the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education. | 
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