The Nation’s Report Card: Science 2009 Trial Urban District Assessment
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2011452
Results of tests in science administered to 4th and 8th graders in 17 urban public school districts that agreed to participate in the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests. Scores are reported by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic measures and scores from the urban schools are compared to the nation as a whole. From the National Center for Education Statistics