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Student Achievement What the Research Says Next NAEP to Take Deeper Look at Poverty's Connection to Students' Achievement
Researchers say the new measure could yield a more accurate reading of how family income affects students' test scores.
Sarah D. Sparks, February 26, 2024
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Yuma Police Department forensic technician Heidi Heck shows students in Jonathan Bailey's fifth grade science class at Barbara Hall Elementary School how fingerprints show up under a special light during a presentation about forensic science on March 1, 2023.
Yuma Police Department forensic technician Heidi Heck shows students in Jonathan Bailey's fifth grade science class at Barbara Hall Elementary School how fingerprints show up under a special light during a presentation about forensic science on March 1, 2023.
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Science The NAEP Science Exam Is Getting a Major Update. Here's What to Expect
For the first time in 20 years, "the nation's report card" is updating how it gauges students' understanding of science.
Sarah D. Sparks, February 8, 2024
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Artificial Intelligence If ChatGPT Can Write Virtually Anything, What Should a National Writing Exam Test?
That's a question the board that oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress is confronting amid AI's rapid ascendance.
Libby Stanford, November 17, 2023
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Assessment Q&A Q&A: Top NAEP Official Talks About the Future of Nation's Report Card and More
Statistics commissioner Peggy Carr says persistent chronic absenteeism is partly to blame for historically low test scores.
Sarah D. Sparks, September 11, 2023
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Mathematics Project Quiz: U.S. Students Struggle With These Math Concepts. Do You?
Test your knowledge of math concepts, and then see how U.S. students fared.
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Mathematics Project The State of Math Education, in Charts
See the numbers on students' declining math scores, job demands for data skills, and teachers' math preparation.
Sarah D. Sparks & Laura Baker, July 31, 2023
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Social Studies Q&A 'I Must Teach Truth to Power': A Top History Teacher Discusses 'Divisive Concepts' Laws
Veteran history teacher Kurt Russell assesses the challenges ahead for social studies teachers.
Sarah Schwartz, July 6, 2023
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School & District Management Opinion 'School Leaders Have 99 Problems, But NAEP Scores Ain't One'
Schools might want their students to perform at high levels, but there are more pressing and basic needs that must be addressed first.
Larry Ferlazzo, June 27, 2023
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Student Achievement Reading and Math Achievement Is Getting Worse, Nation's Report Card Shows
Gaps between the highest- and lowest-performing students and white and Black students are widening.
Sarah Schwartz, June 21, 2023
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Assessment NAEP Results Are Often Politicized. Could Rescheduling It Help?
Administering NAEP in non-election years will shield it from further politicization, the board that oversees it said.
Evie Blad, May 22, 2023
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Assessment Opinion The Nation's Report Card Could Be Education's Data Gold Mine
Better support for educators, higher student achievement, improved tests are among the outcomes when researchers have access to NAEP data.
Mark Schneider & John Whitmer, May 18, 2023
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Social Studies Do You Know as Much as an 8th Grader About Civics? Quiz Yourself
Take our short quiz below to test your own knowledge of civics (and see how you stack up against today's grade 8 students).
Marina Whiteleather, May 9, 2023
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Social Studies Understanding the Sharp Drop in History and Civics NAEP Scores: 4 Things to Know
Knowing about these trends in social studies education helps put the new NAEP results in context.
Sarah Schwartz, May 4, 2023
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Social Studies Opinion How To Fix the Shockingly Low NAEP History and Civic Scores
We need more civics and history in literacy lessons and more deliberate literacy instruction in civics and history, argues Susan Pimentel.
Susan Pimentel, May 3, 2023
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