But both sides have long backed the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which is also called the Nation’s Report Card. Now even this test, touted as the “gold standard” among ...

Sponsor Message The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which provides data for the Nation's Report Card, is mandated by Congress and is the largest nationally representative test ...

The NAEP data, often called the “Nation’s Report Card,” has shown that K-12 student outcomes are not at the level they must be for America to retain its leadership in the world. NAEP is a ...

She also reassured the audience that the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) is “something we absolutely need to keep.” “This is what keeps us honest, because it’s ...

But don’t worry. It might be back in a week. When NAEP scores are viewed as a calamity, they produce predictable responses. Critics’ solutions tend to be the same ones advanced before the test ...

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 ...

Some of the lowlights of this year’s NAEP results: The bottom fell out everywhere. Fourth and eighth graders had the worst reading scores seen in more than 30 years. A third of eighth graders ...

The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the exam’s three-decade history — 33 percent. The percentage of ...

According to 2022 data, most state reading standards are closer to the NAEP Basic level, and 67% of eighth-graders in 2024 met that standard. On May 15, 2025, U.S. Education Secretary Linda ...

Instead, Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz pitched a five-alarm tantrum, claiming the test was unfair to Florida (while also grudgingly admitting the NAEP results were considered the ...

New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, indicate that four years after the onset of the pandemic lockdowns, American ...

But both sides have long backed the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which is also called the Nation’s Report Card. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Now even this test, touted ...