Peggy Carr, Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics since 2021, was placed on administrative leave by the Trump administration, prompting questions about her role in student testing programs. The NCES, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), recently revealed alarming data showing U.S. students performing below pre-pandemic levels in reading and math, particularly among eighth-graders. The Biden administration has expressed concern about these findings, while surrounding politics have complicated the situation for Carr and the agency responsible for tracking educational progress.
Not only that, but the worst-performing readers in 2024 scored "lower than our lower performers did 30 years ago for fourth and eighth grade. That's how low these scores historically have dropped," Carr told NPR last month.
According to the results, the share of eighth-graders reading below NAEP's basic standard "was the largest in the assessment's history."
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