Some educators argue that state tests don't do much more than evaluate students' ability to perform under pressure.

We’re not seeing the progress we need to regain the ground our students lost during the pandemic,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, of the NAEP test ...

While the highest-performing students started to regain lost ground, lower-performing students fell further behind.

Washington students' test scores show a decline in achievement despite an influx of funding over the past decade.