Chalkbeat on MSN

More American students are attending private school. Why do so few take NAEP?

NAEP is known as the nation’s report card. But as more students leave public schools, low participation by private schools makes it harder to understand American students’ progress.
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 ...
The Hechinger Report on MSN

Southern states boost early reading, but gains stall in middle school

When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired ...
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.
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 ...
AOL

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) ...
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.
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 ...
Houston Chronicle

Houston-area schools could lose vital research, testing as Trump guts Department of Education

Houston-area public schools could lose vital educational data used to combat ongoing COVID-era academic declines as the Trump administration pushes to gut the Department of Education. ACADEMIC LOSS: ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Designing a Market Basket for NAEP: Summary of a Workshop

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 ...