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5.10.2022

Assessing the Nation’s Report Card: Challenges and Choices for NAEP

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

How do we see whether achievement gaps between groups of students are widening or narrowing? How can we tell whether eighth graders in Missouri do better or worse in math than their peers in Michigan and Maine? We wouldn’t know these things or much else about K–12 achievement in America without a little-known but vital test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a.k.a. “NAEP” or the “Nation’s Report Card.” Assessing the Nation’s Report Card: Challenges and Choices for NAEP, authored by veteran education participant/analyst Chester E. Finn, Jr., examines the history of NAEP, the issues and challenges that it faces today, and ways to strengthen and modernize it for the future.

6.23.2022

Public education’s compensation problem

Don Parker
6.23.2022

The state of high-quality instructional materials

Nathaniel Grossman
6.16.2022

The mass exodus of teachers isn’t what you think it is. It’s far worse.

Jeremy Adams
6.16.2022

Encouraging progress on “high quality instructional materials”

Robert Pondiscio
6.9.2022

Here’s why all students need agency rather than equity

Ian Rowe
6.9.2022

The coming “second wave” of learning loss in 2023 and 2024

Michael Goldstein
6.9.2022

How much do teachers matter in the early grades?

William Rost
6.2.2022

How does a child’s religious background affect her choices about higher education?

Nathaniel Grossman
6.16.2022

A “no zeroes” grading policy is the worst of all worlds

Daniel Buck
6.23.2022

Revisiting “The Case Against the Zero”: A response to Daniel Buck

Douglas Reeves
6.23.2022

Let’s not get reckless with grading: Replying to Douglas Reeves

Daniel Buck
6.16.2022

Bus commutes and their academic impacts in New York City

Jeff Murray
6.9.2022

“Expert” idiocy on teaching kids to read

Robert Pondiscio
6.9.2022

Do gifted and talented programs contribute to racial imbalances in elementary school?

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
6.2.2022

How to narrow the excellence gap in early elementary school

Michael J. Petrilli
5.26.2022

The excellence gap opens early

Michael J. Petrilli

Ohio

6.21.2022

Three ways Ohio can improve education-to-workforce pathways

Jessica Poiner
6.13.2022

What to expect from Ohio’s federally-funded summer and afterschool programs

Jessica Poiner
6.10.2022

Fall 2021 tests show Ohio students are making up lost ground—but big gaps remain

Vladimir Kogan
5.31.2022

Don’t weaken Ohio’s charter sponsor evaluation system

Aaron Churchill
6.24.2022

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 6.24.22

Chad L. Aldis, Jeff Murray
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