One of the most striking features of the troubling results from the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress is the much lower percentage of students scoring proficient on NAEP than on many states鈥 own 2024 standardized exams.
By now, you鈥檝e likely seen the results: modest improvements in math, but not enough to get students back to pre-pandemic performance levels; fourth graders fell further behind in reading; a record 34% of eighth graders scored 鈥渂elow basic鈥 in reading.
In addition to the national summaries, NAEP reported student achievement in each state, where proficiency rates ranged from a high of 51% in fourth-grade math in Massachusetts to a low of 14% in eighth-grade math in New Mexico.
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