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Reading Scores for KY Students Rise

By AP

Frankfort, KY – Education officials say Kentucky is the only state that reported increases in both fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores in a series of national achievement tests last year. The Kentucky Department of Education Wednesday released the state results from the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Nationwide, reading scores for fourth- and eighth-grade students held mostly steady. In Kentucky, on a scale from zero to 500, fourth-graders scored 226, and eighth-graders scored 267. Both scores are higher than the national average of 220 and 262, respectively.