Civics education is abysmal across the country, but a few states are leading the way for reform just in time for the celebration of America's 250th.

For any successful journey, you need a clear destination and tools to chart your progress. Adjustments along the way are ...

The government continues to underfund special ed and broader efforts to give all students the resources they need to succeed.

Governor Tate Reeves has doted on Mississippi’s students this week after Urban Institute released its 2024 adjusted NAEP scores for 4th and 8th grade.

Contrary to promises that the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) would not be affected by cuts, the data-collecting agency was stripped of the vast majority of its workforce.

The Trump administration has cut half of the Department of Education, including most NAEP student testing staff. Here's how that could impact Houston schools.

NAEP says little about causes of increases or decreases in scores, let alone about what should be done to improve matters. That doesn’t prevent people from interpreting them in line with their ...

But there's room for apprehension. At first, NAEP assessments were thought to have been spared from the cuts. But last week the U.S. Department of Education yanked a planned assessment of 17-year-olds ...

Once said to be off limits, the Trump administration cancels one of the NAEP exams By Christopher Huffaker Globe Staff,Updated February 24, 2025, 2:58 p.m.

And in both grades, students who did not reach the NAEP Basic level–relatively low performers at the 25th percentile and under–had lower scores than in 1992, when the first NAEP test was given. When a ...

In this year's test, almost 1 in 4 eighth graders were "below NAEP Basic" in math, meaning that they didn't even have "partial mastery" of the skills necessary to succeed in eighth-grade math.

A proficient NAEP score is the gold standard, and means students in fourth grade can understand the meaning of words and sentences and give a timeline of events from what they’ve read.