10. The U.S. Department of Education regularly conducts the National Assessment of Educational Progress (also known as the “Nation’s Report Card”) to monitor student achievement in subjects such as reading, writing, and mathematics.

Visit their data Web site at http://www.nces.

ed.gov/nationsreportcard/naepdata/search.asp (or start at the main Web site at http://www.nces.ed.gov/

nationsreportcard/). Com pare the progress from 1998 to 2003 of students in your state with the progress of students in one other state. In which subject areas or grade levels has your state compared most favorably with the other state?