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 ...

Peggy Carr, a federal official who leads one of the country's most extensive student testing programs, known as The Nation's ...

EXCLUSIVE — The Trump administration placed Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, on leave Monday, just weeks after the nation’s yearly report card showed ...

The Education Department put Peggy Carr, who has worked at the center for more than 30 years, on leave Monday night. A department spokeswoman told The 74 that the decision was in part because former ...

Studies have shown that scoring basic on NAEP is roughly equivalent to scoring “proficient” on many state tests. Students who ...

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.

The state’s 8th-grade reading score was below the national average for the first time since 2015, and its 8th-grade math score was the lowest in 20 years.

Around 40% of fourth-graders scored below NAEP Basic, which was the worst result in 20 years. Even though fourth-grade math scores did go up, they’re still below pre-pandemic levels. Peggy Carr ...

Peggy Carr, the federal official who supervises the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called the ...