Five years after the pandemic, a UVA education professor explains why reading and math scores warrant concern, not panic.

American classrooms are constantly chasing the next education innovation, but left out of this process have been the tests we use to measure our students’ success. Every two years, the release of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of Education has abruptly canceled a national test of 17-year-olds after saying just last week that its recent ...

Newly released data from America’s longest-running measure of student learning have delivered a decidedly split verdict on ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WNCT) — The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress results show that American students are ...

The uncertainty swirling around the Department of Education’s future has created an opening to reconsider the course of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). In a recent speech, ...

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 ...

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 ...

National test results reveal that a year ago, 9-year-olds performed nearly as well as their counterparts did before the pandemic. But kids on the cusp of high school were far below past achievement ...

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.

A third component of the NAEP market basket is the concept of the NAEP short form. Under this notion, the short form would be the vehicle for releasing items, providing a set of questions that could ...