In New York, the nation’s highest spending state, per-pupil funding has continued to rise as enrollment declines. New York ...

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 ...

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) ...

In January 2006, ABC’s John Stossel’s brutally honest documentary, “ Stupid in America ,” first aired. At the time, he ...

“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 ...

Below are five takeaways from our reporting on test scores. Low-income students and students with disabilities are falling ...

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) ...

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 ...

Discover which U.S. standardized exam is known as the Nation’s Report Card. Learn about the NAEP (National Assessment of ...

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.