Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states were invited in June 1984 to participate in a project with the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to assess the reading achievement of eleventh grade students. Florida, Tennessee and Virginia accepted and worked with SREB and NAEP staff to develop and administer the testing program. Administered in April 1985, the project findings provided the participating states with a current and reliable measure of how their students' reading achievement compares with national and regional results, and for the first time they have comparable data on how their students' achievement compares with students' achievement in other states. A summary of score comparisons of the reading assessment are provided for eleventh grade students in the nation and in the NAEP Southeastern region (excluding the SREB states of Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas). The national and regional averages include students in public and private schools, while the participating SREB states included only public school students. The state comparisons are made to the national and regional testing administered in Spring 1984. The SREB/NAEP project also included a "background and attitudes" survey of students which is available from the individual states. (PN)