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 ...

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 ...

The United States rejected a United Nations resolution calling for Russia to immediately pull troops out of Ukraine this week ...

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

American students’ reading skills have continued to decline since the COVID-19 pandemic, and their math skills have barely improved, according to the nation's biennial "Report Card." ...

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.

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