Yahoo

NAEP Costs May Have Played Role in Move to Sideline Testing Official Peggy Carr

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For more than 20 years, Peggy Carr has helped the nation understand how students are performing in school. Even before former ...

Why So Few Private School Students Take NAEP — And Why it Matters

The National Assessment of Educational Progress is known as the nation’s report card. But as more students leave public ...
Wall Street Journal

Another NAEP Test Score Disappointment

“National Assessment of Educational Progress scores decline” is a familiar story; the last installment was in May, with a report that 8th-grade U.S. history test scores hit an all-time low. The latest ...
Roll Call

We are becoming the world’s D student, latest test results suggest

Last week, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the gold standard of educational testing, released its 2024 12th-grade results for reading and math. The NAEP results should be a serious ...
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With student test scores flailing, DOGE cuts to Nation’s Report Card raise red flags

Cuts to the Department of Education are hitting the highly valued Nation’s Report Card even as sirens blare on student test scores. The 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) ...
The Hill

With student scores flailing, DOGE changes to national tests raise red flags

Cuts to the Department of Education are hitting national student assessments even as sirens blare on student test scores. The 17-year-old long-term National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) ...
Roll Call

We must protect NAEP, the gold standard for education accountability

Last week, President Trump did what conservatives have wanted to do since the 1980s: He signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education. Although the president will need Congress to ...
Education Week

The NAEP Science Exam Is Getting a Major Update. Here’s What to Expect

For the first time in 20 years, “the nation’s report card” is updating how it gauges students’ understanding of science. The National Assessment Governing Board gave final approval to a new framework ...
Forbes

K-12 Students Face An Alphabet Soup Of Standardized Tests. What Purpose Do They Serve?

An inescapable element of K-12 public education in the United States is testing. For many students and parents, testing has become ubiquitous. It feels like it is everywhere, every day, all the time.
Colorado Public Radio

NAEP test results: Colorado’s scores are mostly stable, as gap between low and high performers widens

Colorado students continue to perform better than students in many other states and showed slight improvements on national math and reading tests, but they’re still scoring below pre-pandemic levels.
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A smaller Nation’s Report Card

As Education Secretary Linda McMahon was busy dismantling her cabinet department, she vowed to preserve one thing: the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s ...