The US Supreme Court has allowed the Education Department to proceed with over 1,300 staff layoffs, severely impacting key ...

Opinion: If the funding appropriated by Congress is not restored immediately, these funding losses will impact our students' ...

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 ...

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

“NAEP is a valuable resource for educators, parents, and policymakers. The cancellation of the Long-Term Trend assessment of 17-year-olds is not unprecedented, it has been cancelled several ...

Louisiana was the only state to recover its pre-pandemic NAEP test scores in reading, actually improving on its 2019 results — thanks largely to a new law requiring early-grade phonics.

Pretty much the only good-news story in education through the first half of 2025 has been the “Southern Surge”—the impressive ...

Inflated test scores didn't tell the real story. Kudos to Legislature and governor for eliminating the "honesty gap" in school testing.