NCES

VIRGINIA IS ranked NUMBER 9 as far as average 4th grade readers go across the U.S..

In looking at the Nations Report Card,

click on this link to view the nations report card.

  

there are so many large numbers that I really did not know how to make sense of it.

 I then exported the States in Microsoft Excel,

Then I created a scatter plot in excel to show where we are (Virginia) and how we are doing as a state with our 4th grade students in the subject area of Reading during the year 2011.

Please click here or look above and see that VIRGINIA shows up NUMBER 59 ON THE NCES LIST because it is in alphabetical order, however, Virginia as a State does quite well.  They are in 9th place as far as their students reading.