For more than 20 years, Peggy Carr has helped the nation understand how students are performing in school. Even before former ...

Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, speaks about the National Assessment of Educational Progress on Oct. 21, 2022, in Washington.

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 ...

Peggy Carr, a federal official who leads one of the country's most extensive student testing programs, known as The Nation's Report Card, was placed on administrative leave.

Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, has been suspended, potentially disrupting critical data collection on racial disparities in schools. ... (NAEP) scores ...

But Peggy Carr stressed this is not solely a pandemic story. Reading scores have been declining since 2017. ... “We don't know what will happen to NCES or NAEP,” Carr said when asked by ABC News.

The Trump administration has suspended Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, following the release of the latest NAEP report showing a significant decline ...

“Our lowest performing students are reading at historically low levels,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which gives the NAEP exam.

North Carolina students are still performing below pre-pandemic levels on national reading and math tests and have made little progress on those exams in the last two years, according to new data ...

That's how low these scores historically have dropped," says Peggy Carr, commissioner for the National Center for Education Statistics. Not one state improved its eighth-grade reading scores ...

News Brief. Wednesday, February 26, 2025 — 12:30 pm. Chief of NAEP put on leave by Trump administration. Peggy Carr, the federal official who supervises the National Assessment of Educational Progress ...