In today’s Roll Call, The Winston Group’s David Winston writes about NAEP’s critical function in ensuring our education system is on track — and letting us know when it is not. There are reasonable arguments to be made about the size of the federal government and whether certain crucial programs
Less than two weeks after the 2024 NAEP scores were released — showing continued declines in reading and stagnation in math — the latest Education Recovery Scorecard was released, bearing similar news. The report, produced by the Center for Education Policy at Harvard University and The Educational Opportunity Project at
As we covered in our January 29th post, the 2024 NAEP data have just been released, showing that students struggled with reading, even more so than math. One of the main takeaways from the 2024 data is that the drops cannot all be attributed to the lingering effects of Covid.
The Winston Group’s David Winston writes about the latest NAEP scores in today’s Roll Call: The NAEP results are beyond sobering. The tests found that 40 percent of the country’s fourth graders and a third of eighth graders were “below basic” in reading, incapable of understanding even the central idea
Early this morning, the results of the highly anticipated 2024 NAEP were released. The results in a nutshell: student achievement is not back to its pre-pandemic levels, with reading scores especially posting declines and the lowest-performing students continuing to struggle the most. “The news is not good,” said Peggy Carr, NCES Commissioner. “This
On his new Substack, “The Next 30 Years: The Future Of Education Reform,” Robert Pondiscio has a new piece on the importance of content-specific knowledge for building skills like critical thinking. “You want students to ‘think like a scientist’ instead of studying science?” he asks. “You can’t.” He continues, There