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

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

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

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 ...

Fourth and eighth graders also performed worse on the math portion of the 2024 test than they did before the pandemic. Fourth graders scored 3 points lower than the pre-pandemic year on average, and ...

Massachusetts scores peaked more than a decade ago after 20 years of progress, but the pandemic accelerated declines. Even partial recovery from 2022 to 2024 is very limited, only visible in ...