Yet, amid falling national scores, NAEP shows that some jurisdictions are succeeding. Students in District of Columbia public ...

For many educators, it’s panic time again, following the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, aka the “Nation’s Report Card,” as it has been labeled by the people who are ...

Results released from the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, paint a sobering picture of academic ... and lowest-performing students was the widest in the test’s history. “The ...

Peggy Carr, the federal official who supervises the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called the nation’s report card, was placed on administrative leave by the Trump ...

33% of eighth graders nationwide scored below basic in reading, the worst recorded performance in NAEP history. 40% of eighth graders scored below basic in math, struggling with basic problem ...

Nationally, math scores in 2022 dropped 8 points in eighth grade and 5 points in fourth, the largest drop in NAEP’s 25-year history. The latest scores show mostly no progress. Scores in fourth and ...

But one upcoming NAEP test, the long-term trend test for 17-year-olds, has been suddenly canceled. It’s not the main NAEP exam that provides critical state- and district-level data, but it has ...

A higher average score leads to a higher state ranking here. The NAEP reading scores metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best States rankings. See the Best States methodology for a ...

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