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NAEP report shows seniors struggling in reading, math

By Paul Katula • Sep 9, 2025
One-third of US high school seniors can’t meet minimum expectations in reading; math results are even worse. Gaps widen a bit.

Fauci: COVID’s long school closures ‘not a good idea’

By Paul Katula • Jun 19, 2024
The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reflects on school closures during the pandemic.

Long-term trend scores drop on Nation’s Report Card

By Paul Katula • Sep 6, 2022
Reading and math scores dropped on a national assessment's long-term trend assessment, showing some decline under remote learning.

25 years of data show no gains from vouchers

By Press Release • Mar 2, 2017
Vouchers are shown to be ineffective in yet another long-term study. When will we learn that taking funds away from public schools is a bad idea?

NAEP reports state-level scores on science test

By Paul Katula • Oct 27, 2016
Scores were released Thursday on the 4th-, 8th-, and 12th-grade science test for NAEP. State-level results might not tell us what we need to know.

NAEP scores blip down in 4th- & 8th-grade math

By Paul Katula • Oct 28, 2015
US 4th & 8th graders had a lower scores in math on the longest-running national assessment of the nation's schools. Not a big deal, but here's more data.

Chronic absenteeism may hurt achievement gap

By Paul Katula • Sep 2, 2015
Chronic absenteeism starts young, and when it does, it blossoms into bigger problems, especially for minorities and poor students.

No change in NAEP 8th-grade social studies

By Press Release • Aug 16, 2015
NAEP has released data from the 2014 social studies examination for 8th graders in the US: no significant change from the results in 2010.

NAEP math, reading scores up a little nationwide

By Paul Katula • Nov 9, 2013
The scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the "Nation's Report Card" were released last week, and we have a few details to share.
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