NAEP began in 1964, with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation to set up the Exploratory Committee for the Assessment of Progress in Education (ESCAPE). The first national assessments were held in 1969.

From 1963 to 1969, the founders of NAEP developed an innovative, new, large-scale measurement technology; specified the assessments to be conducted; and negotiated an arrangement for managing the project.

In 1962, President Kennedy appointed Francis Keppel as head of the Office of Education, which was then part of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. As Keppel told the story, he went to Washington and wondered what the duties of the Commissioner of Education were, so he looked up the 1867 law that authorized the Office.

Dec 13, 2024 · Since its first assessments in 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has involved a wide array of contributors, including researchers, state and district education officials, contractors, policymakers, students, and teachers.

At a December 8th and 9th 1922 meeting in Ithaca, NY, the founders, with the blessing of the Association of University & College Business Officers of the Eastern States, decided to publish a Bulletin to facilitate the sharing of information. The first issue was dated January 1, 1923.

NAEP emerged as a federally supported program in the late 1960s, often pinpointed at October 1969 when the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) awarded a 1-year, $2 million grant to the Education Commission of the States (ECS) to support …

Jun 30, 2019 · This paper traces the evolution of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) program with an emphasis on the concurrent evolution of NAEP’s primary and secondary purposes.

Mar 13, 2002 · 1963: U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel appoints a committee to explore options for tracking educational progress in the United States. In 1966, the committee recommends that a...

These programs did not exist in the early 1990s when the framework for the NAEP test in history was created. Are they beginning to make a difference? The current NAEP history results raise others questions as well. Why have the greatest improvements come at the level of the lowest performing students?

Jul 11, 2022 · In the forefront of the national debate about school reform for five decades, Finn was present at NAEP’s founding and is one of its most prominent advocates. This article is an edited excerpt from Assessing the Nation’s Report Card: Challenges and Choices for NAEP by Chester E. Finn Jr. (Harvard Education Press, 2022).