The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Nation’s Report Card 2015.\u00a0 The NAEP test is largest continuing and nationally representative assessment of what our nation’s students know and can do in subjects such as mathematics, reading, science, and writing.\u00a0\u00a0 In 2015, student performance in mathematics declined nationally in scores at both grades 4 and 8 for the first time since the early 1990s.\u00a0 Forty percent of fourth-grade and 33 percent of eighth-grade students performed at or above the Proficient level in mathematics.\u00a0 Reading scores also declined from the last administered test in 2012.\u00a0 About one third of fourth- and eighth-grade students in 2015 perform at or above the Proficient level in reading.<\/p>\n