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Free Lunch
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Monday, November 17, 2003
- 12:44 PM
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The NAEP released an interesting report card on reading and math in the United States. Tests were done in all fifty states and the results are a bit weird in some places. Take this test for example and the following image:
It shows math scores of students grade 4 and 8 who are eligible for free lunches vs. those who are not. The page listed the major findings as these:
- In 2003, the average mathematics score for student's who were eligible for free/reduced-price lunch was lower than the average score for students who were not eligible at both grades.
- At both grades 4 and 8, the average mathematics scores were higher in 2003 than in any of the previous assessment years for students who were eligible and for students who were not eligible for free/reduced-price lunch.
I was always a free lunch kid myself. I wonder what the free lunch program was used to signify here in this test. Household income and how it influences child learning ability maybe? That is all that I can think of right now. It might even be a nutrition thing. Either way, the fact that those eligible for free lunch have a lower average test score in math makes me want to look into this. I'll leave this as a note to self for me to read and write about these stats again soon. The education system in the United States intrigues me. More on this later...
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