The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is best known for tests that track reading and math achievement but ...

For any successful journey, you need a clear destination and tools to chart your progress. Adjustments along the way are ...

Non-core NAEP tests under threat. NAEP comprises a large basket of tests beyond the main tests in math and reading for fourth and eighth graders, which began in the early 1990s.

NAEP assessments sort student scores into three achievement levels — basic, proficient, and advanced; test results also show students who score below the basic level. Peggy G. Carr, commissioner ...

When NAEP scores are viewed as a calamity, they produce predictable responses. Critics’ solutions tend to be the same ones advanced before the test results were announced: more charter schools ...

NAEP classifies students at one of three skill levels: advanced, proficient or the lowest, basic. According to the results, the share of eighth-graders reading below NAEP's basic standard "was the ...

NAEP: Michigan students showed no improvement in reading scores since before COVID. Story by Hannah Dellinger, Isabel Lohman, Bridge Michigan, Mike Wilkinson, Bridge Michigan • 1w.

News Brief. Wednesday, February 26, 2025 — 12:30 pm. Chief of NAEP put on leave by Trump administration. Peggy Carr, the federal official who supervises the National Assessment of Educational Progress ...

U.S. News ranks states based on NAEP math scores. See which states' eighth-graders are the best at math.

The government continues to underfund special ed and broader efforts to give all students the resources they need to succeed.

The threat to NAEP began with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in February. DOGE’s cost cutters slashed research and statistics contracts at the Education Department, but a ...

Without NAEP, we would not be so painfully aware of pandemic learning losses and how children cannot read and multiply nearly as well as they could in 2019, nor would other states be looking to copy ...