The official who oversees a key measure of the nation's educational progress was abruptly placed on leave by the Trump ...

Peggy Carr has helped the nation understand how students are performing in school. Even before former President Joe Biden ...

The canceled exam would have provided a post-pandemic update for its age group. But it was last administered in 2012, leaving ...

The Trump administration has suspended Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, ...

The U.S. Department of Education has suspended Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics ...

Studies have shown that scoring basic on NAEP is roughly equivalent to scoring “proficient” on many state tests. Students who ...

Peggy Carr, a federal official who leads one of the country's most extensive student testing programs, known as The Nation's ...

While Mississippi did not make any major waves in math or reading in 2024 compared to 2022, scores in some categories did ...

When Louisiana made gains in reading proficiency in a recent Congressionally-mandated assessment, it stuck out. NAEP — known ...

There’s a widening achievement gap in this country and it has worsened since the pandemic, especially for grade eight,” said NCES Commissioner Peggy G. Carr.

The state’s 8th-grade reading score was below the national average for the first time since 2015, and its 8th-grade math score was the lowest in 20 years.

Peggy Carr, the federal official who supervises the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called the ...