The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has online the full text, summary, and highlights of the NAEP 1998 Reading Report Card. In 1998, NAEP conducted a national reading assessment of fourth, eighth, and twelfth grade students and compared the results to those in 1994 and 1992. The report finds that, although scores did not increase for students at all levels of achievement, the...

On April 6, 2001, two important educational assessment reports were issued, both based on data collected by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The first of these focuses on the reading skills of fourth-graders and finds that the gap between the highest and lowest performing students has widened over the past eight years. Users may access the data and report contents in a...