Kevin Clifford/Nevada Appeal File Photo An eighth-grade student writes in her journal in English class at Carson Middle School. Nevada fourth-graders showed slight increases in math on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress test, receiving an average score of 232, up from 230 in 2005. That was well below the national average of 239. A perfect score is 500 points.

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Nevada students remain among nation's poorest performers on test

• By ncs-import
• September 28, 2007