The president of the national teachers’ union said 12th-grade math and reading performance was paltry compared with the higher scores of the 1990s.

The American Federation of Teachers’ Randi Weingarten said the 2009 scores “don’t show enough growth since the 1990s. We must take immediate steps to prepare all children, regardless of ZIP code, to succeed in college, work and life.”

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