Oklahoma's strategy on test scores misses the mark | Opinion

Oklahoma tied its public definition of “proficiency” to an external benchmark that does not measure exactly what Oklahoma ...
Yahoo

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

For more than 20 years, Peggy Carr has helped the nation understand how students are performing in school. Even before former President Joe Biden appointed her commissioner of the National Center for ...
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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) ...
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 ...
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) ...
The Denver Post

Colorado students’ NAEP test scores mostly stable, as gap between low and high performers widens

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado students continue to perform better than students in many other states and showed slight improvements on national math and reading tests, but ...
KQED

NAEP, the Nation’s Report Card, Was Supposed to be Safe. It’s Not

In this era of extreme partisan divide, there’s very little that unites conservatives and liberals. But both sides have long backed the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which is ...
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 ...
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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 ...