Language Magazine – Staff Writer
“According to the National Assessment of Education Progress, also known at NAEP or the Nation’s Report Card, students in the U.S. are getting worse at reading, and the achievement gap between the highest-performing students and lowest-performing students grew. The NAEP tests over 600,000 fourth- and eighth-graders in public and Catholic schools every two years in math and reading. “Over the past decade, there has been no progress in either mathematics or reading performance, and the lowest performing students are doing worse,” Peggy Carr, associate commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said during a press call Tuesday.” (more)