The Nation's Report Card

 

The most recent Nation's Report Card – for 12th grade reading and mathematics – joins a series of NAEP releases in recent years that signal troubling trends across grade levels and across subject areas. The results reveal a pattern in which the lowest-performing students on NAEP show the largest declines in performance in both reading and mathematics. WATCH THE VIDEO This pattern predates the current national landscape, in which the global pandemic is disproportionately affecting the economic circumstances and educations of children of color and those living in low-income households. While this is undoubtedly troubling news, there is a compelling need to shine a spotlight on it, and we hope the context that NAEP provides can be a catalyst for action. Watch this video to learn more. The National Assessment Governing Board is an independent, nonpartisan board whose members include governors, state legislators, local and state school officials, educators, business representatives, and members of the general public. Congress created the 26-member Governing Board in 1988 to set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress. For more information about the Governing Board, visit  www.nagb.gov.