Education briefs News-Chronicle GREEN BAY Danz School to celebrate Children's Book Week Danz Elementary School, 2130 Basten St., will be celebrating National Children's Book Week today through Friday. There will be celebrity/guest readers throughout the week in the LMC. Programs will last 45 minutes, which includes a 15minute checkout. Events Include: - 9:30 a.m., today, "Miss Spider's Tea Party" with artist and bugmaker, Joyce Fritz 12:30 p.m., today, Liberty Dog program that trains dogs to work with handicapped individuals 1:30 and 2:30 p.m., today, Bev Smith portrays Elizabeth Baird, a famous woman from Green Bay's past - 1 p.m.,Tuesday, Mark Jacobs of Great Escape Comics and Games will share the history of many super heroes through comics. - Wednesday, a puppet show, "The Frog Prince," will be presented to all kindergarten classes - 10:15 and 11:15 a.m., Thursday, Kim Talbot of Talbot's Martial Arts presents "Sumo Mouse" by David Wisniewski plus martial arts demonstration 2 p.m., Thursday, Karla Frost, children's librarian, Brown County Library East Branch, shares folktales and songs in English and Spanish - 11 a.m., Friday, Meet Beatrix Potter. Guest, Barbara Heike, will share stories about Peter Rabbit and his friends. Includes a wool handspinning activity. 1:15 p.m., Friday, poems for two principals. Principal Kim Ott and special surprise guest share poems from "You Read to Me and I'll Read to You" by Mary Ann Hoberman 2:30 p.m., Friday, Storyteller Stu Smith shares Anansi the Spider and other trickster tales from Africa. For more information, call Peter Angilello, 3912440. MADISON Wisconsin performs high on math and reading tests Wisconsin beat the national average on the 2003 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) testing in mathematics and reading. In mathematics, fourth-graders averaged 237 compared to a national average score of 234. Wisconsin had a higher average score in 2003 than in 1996 (231) and 1992 (229). At eighth grade, the average score for 2003 was 284 compared to a national average of 276. For reading the fourth-grade score was 221 compared to 216 for the nation. Eighth-graders had an average score of 266 compared to 261. African-American students at fourth grade had higher average scores in mathematics (209) and reading (200) than their 1996 scores. For both tests, more African-American students moved out of the below basic proficiency level and a higher number scored at the basic level. The NAEP 2003 assessments were administered to a stratified random sample of fourth-, eighth- and twelfth-graders for the national report and to public school fourth- and eighth-graders for the statebystate report. All 50 states, the District of Columbia and Department of Defense Domestic and Overseas schools participated in the assessments which included about 7,000 schools at fourth grade and 5,700 schools for eighth grade. In Wisconsin, approximately 3,000 fourth-grade students from 127 schools and about 2,500 eighth-graders from 105 schools participated in the assessments.