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Scores for the grade three Iowa Reading Test released Tuesday showed 59 percent of Cambridge's third graders are "advanced" or "proficient" readers. The jump from last year's score along with exceptional performance from four Cambridge elementary schools--Cambridgeport, M. E. Fitzgerald, King Open and Morse--has teachers and principals beaming with pride...
...Iowa tests are given to students in grades three through eight nation-wide. The tests are intended to measure how well a student has learned basic elementary and middle school subjects, such as reading and math...
Last year, third-grade Iowa test results put only 38 percent of Cambridge students at the "proficient" level...
...future, the numbers school officials are looking at will be on a different scale--1999 is the last year Massachusetts will give the Iowa reading test. Students will instead take a version of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, and third-graders will be given trial MCAS questions next spring before the test is launched...
...superintendent sees the Iowa results as an indication that student scores may be on the upswing...