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November 24, 2003
 The State of State
Standards: Research
Investigating Proficiency Levels in Fourteen States
The passage of the No
Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) by the federal government in 2002
provided public education in the United States with a number of
vast opportunities as well as several daunting challenges. In
reading the law and its associated regulations, it is not always
clear where the challenges leave off and the opportunities begin.
One of the primary effects of the act was to require each state to
set proficiency levels in mathematics and reading and to
categorize students into one of at least three proficiency
categories, normally labeled Basic, Proficient, and
Advanced. In this report we will most commonly refer to the
level most states call proficient and will refer to
minimum test score associated with this level as the proficiency
score.
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