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

The Trump administration placed Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, on leave Monday ...

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

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

American students’ reading skills have continued to decline since the COVID-19 pandemic, and their math skills have barely improved, according to the nation's biennial "Report Card." ...

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.

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 news is not good,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which oversees the ...

Reading test score declines began in 2019, were exacerbated because of pandemic-related setbacks and have continued to slide because of the nation's "complex challenges in reading," Peggy Carr, ...

“The news is not good,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which oversees the assessment. “We are not seeing the progress we need to regain the ...