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Study: U.S. 4th-graders better, but 8th-graders are stagnant

Posted: December 12, 2012 at 5:49 a.m.

American fourth-graders are performing better than they were four years ago in math and reading, but students four years older show no such progress, a global study released Tuesday revealed.

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