The Nation’s Report Card: Declines In Learning Confirm Need To Recommit To Academic Recovery
Scores on the Nation’s Report Card confirm the need to focus on research-based strategies to aid students’ learning recovery.
Scores on the Nation’s Report Card confirm the need to focus on research-based strategies to aid students’ learning recovery.
NAEP results confirm that Tennessee has experienced a significant decline in student learning; we must respond with key strategies to support student recovery.
The 2019 NAEP results show that across all tested grades and subjects, Tennessee is either at or very close to the national average. This comes at a time when achievement declines are trending across the nation.
Tennessee students performed slightly better on the Nation’s Report Card while much of the rest of the country saw declines. But improvement is slower than desired, and we are not yet serving all students well.
When Tennessee began setting higher expectations in the classroom, student-focused advocates knew it was important to have an aligned annual measure of progress. The release of the 2017-18 TNReady scores is a good time to recall how statewide assessment data helped Tennessee students make some of the biggest student achievement gains in the nation over…