NAEP 2017: America’s “Lost Decade” of educational progress

Michael Petrilli:

As feared, the new results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that national trends are mostly flat. Coming on the heels of some modest declines in 2015, the 2017 scores amount to more bleak news. It’s now been almost a decade since we’ve seen strong growth in either reading or math, with the slight exception of eighth grade reading. There’s no way to sugarcoat these scores; they are extremely disappointing.

Much more on NAEP, here.

Related: Stretchtargets.org

2017 NAEP results.