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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …