Science, Math Scores Up, Report Shows

Students are doing slightly better in science and mathematics, but their reading and writing scores are virtually unchanged over the past decade or more, an analysis of the latest, 1994, “Nation’s Report Card” finds. Math and science scores inched upward from the early 1980s, the study released in Washington said. Reading scores have not changed much since the early 1970s, the report says. Writing scores in 1994 were about they same as they were in 1984. In science, math and reading, students were tested at ages 9, 13 and 17. In writing, students in grades 4, 8 and 11 were tested.