(Washington, D.C., Friday, October 28, 2022) – The Nation’s Report Card will provide the first look at how students’ reading and math skills in all 50 states and 26 of the largest urban districts in the country have changed since 2019. Leaders of the National Center for Education Statistics, the federal statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Education releasing the data, discuss what happened to students’ achievement in the core subjects over the past several years.
There are many big questions about what happened to student learning since the pandemic began in 2020, and how the unprecedented disruptions to everyday life may have affected achievement. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as The Nation’s Report Card, will report for the first time on national, state, and local district test scores for 4th and 8th graders.
This is the first nationally representative report that allows us to compare state by state results as well as results among major urban districts. The report compares the results of the assessments given in 2022 to 2019, the last time NAEP was assessed before the pandemic started. Reading and Math were assessed in the 4th and 8th grades, two critical points in a student’s educational path. This report will also look at survey data that gives insight into teachers’ and students’ experience at school.