Fresno Unified won't have to worry about being lumped together this year with other low-performing big city school districts like Detroit and Milwaukee. The district opted out of participating in the Trial Urban District Assessment, a district-level assessment in the Nation's Report Card, also known as the National Assessment of...
History, Geography Scores Dip on Nation’s Report Card
The latest Nation’s Report Card shows eighth-graders' scores in U.S. history and geography declining since 2014, results Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday called “stark and inexcusable.” Civics scores on the 2018 assessments were the same as in the last round of tests four years earlier, the newly released results...
Student Performance Lags on Nation’s Report Card
ATLANTA — America's eighth graders are falling behind in math and reading, while fourth graders are doing slightly better in reading, according to the latest results from the Nation's Report Card. But there were some exceptions to the findings, which also showed declines among fourth graders in math. Mississippi and the...