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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.

5.19.2022

The excellence gap and underrepresentation at America’s most selective universities

Michael J. Petrilli
5.19.2022

Evidence, struggling math students, and California’s 2022 math framework

Tom Loveless
5.19.2022

More data on the impact of remote and hybrid learning during the pandemic

Julia Wolf
5.12.2022

Stop mandating financial literacy courses for high school students

Daniel Buck
5.12.2022

The Federal civil service adopted standardized testing in 1883. Are there lessons for education today?

Christian Eggers
5.5.2022

Republicans are peddling speech codes when they should focus on school choice

Dale Chu
5.5.2022

No, social and emotional learning is not a “Trojan horse” for CRT

Robert Pondiscio
4.26.2022

Announcing the National Working Group on Advanced Education

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5.19.2022

“What do you mean, ‘proficient’?” The saga of NAEP achievement levels

Chester E. Finn, Jr.
5.19.2022

What does teacher certification contribute to outcomes for students with disabilities?

Jeff Murray
5.13.2022

When it comes to the Charter Schools Program, little details can have big impacts

Christy Wolfe
5.12.2022

Schools have no choice but to teach social and emotional skills

Nathaniel Grossman
5.10.2022

For whom the school bell tolls: Data on in-person learning in 2020-2021

Jeff Murray
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5.5.2022

Using ESSER funds for retention bonuses makes sense if targeted strategically

Dan Goldhaber
5.5.2022

Shortages, hiring, and retiring: School leaders answer survey questions on pandemic-era staffing

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D.
4.28.2022

How student outcomes were impacted by the desegregation of schools

Julia Wolf
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Ohio

5.24.2022

Can Ohio clean up its teacher pension mess?

Aaron Churchill
5.23.2022

Ohio takes a positive step toward statewide high-dosage tutoring

Jessica Poiner
5.10.2022

The romance versus the reality of teacher pensions

Aaron Churchill
5.9.2022

Time for Ohio to get innovative with high school

Jessica Poiner
5.20.2022

Ohio Charter News Weekly – 5.20.22

Chad L. Aldis, Jeff Murray
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