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EdNC: "North Carolina Student Test Scores Continue to Increase After Pandemic Low, New Data Show"
"Data released by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) last week show that North Carolina public school students continue to improve on tests in most grades and subjects from record lows at the start of the pandemic.
The 2023-24 state test results, which were presented to the State Board of Education last Wednesday, show that 54.2% of students passed state exams last school year, up from 53.6% during the 2022-23 school year.
While overall performance is still down from pre-pandemic levels in 2018-19, students have seen gains each of the last three years. DPI is working to support schools to ensure improvements continue to be made, DPI Senior Director of Accountability and Testing Dr. Tammy Howard told the Board.
'The data is a place of looking to see where we are, what happened in 2024… (and then) to focus on the real purpose of testing and accountability, which is school improvement and increasing student achievement,' Howard said."
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