by 2025-2027 Associate Member Dr. Delphia Smith
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is an important measure of academic progress of America’s students across the nation and over time. It is used as a benchmark to represent continued assessment of what students know and can do in civics, mathematics, reading, science, and U.S. history. Over the years, NAEP reading scores have been on the decline and sadly considered dismal. However, the latest reading NAEP scores released show some improvement for 4th graders, which is encouraging and offers some sense of optimism.
This is great news and should be celebrated. But will NAEP reading scores continue this path of improvement? Show no significant change or sadly decline? After years of a downward trend, there seems to be some hope that the reading scores of America’s children are improving. Again, this is good, but what does this really tell us about the state of reading, the future of America’s children, and America’s literacy crisis?
Thoughts?
