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

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

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

Reading test score declines began in 2019, were exacerbated because of pandemic-related setbacks and have continued to slide because of the nation's "complex challenges in reading," Peggy Carr, ...

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.

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 ...

"There are significant challenges for us as a nation in these data, the gap between the highest and lowest performing students in the eighth grade has widened in both reading and math," said Peggy ...

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 ...