The official who oversees a key measure of the nation's educational progress was abruptly placed on leave by the Trump ...

The Trump administration has suspended Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, ...

Peggy Carr has helped the nation understand how students are performing in school. Even before former President Joe Biden ...

When Louisiana made gains in reading proficiency in a recent Congressionally-mandated assessment, it stuck out. NAEP — known ...

There’s a widening achievement gap in this country and it has worsened since the pandemic, especially for grade eight,” said NCES Commissioner Peggy G. Carr.

Fourth and eighth graders also performed worse on the math portion of the 2024 test than they did before the pandemic. Fourth graders scored 3 points lower than the pre-pandemic year on average, and ...

What's going on?Kids' reading, math skills are worsening, new test scores reveal. Peggy Carr, commissioner of the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics ...

“The news is not good,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which oversees the assessment. “We are not seeing the progress we need to regain the ...

The Best Mom, and Gourmet Cook, to ever live, Margaret “Peggy” Carr passed away peacefully on Friday, December 27, 2024, at the age of 74 surrounded by her family. Peggy Conroy was born on ...

they’re mostly in math and largely driven by higher performance groups,” National Center for Education Statistics Commissioner Peggy Carr said. Reading has taken a significant hit, with both ...