National Assessment of Education Progress

California’s Failing Schools: Everyone Gets a Trophy and 4.5 GPA

July 20, 2026 7:00 amJuly 20, 2026 7:36 am

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports that average 12th grade reading scores were 10 points lower in 2024 than in 1992, and 12th grade math scores were three points below their 2005 level, the lowest level since that...

Globe Contributor: My Decision to Leave Academia

May 16, 2024 3:10 amMay 16, 2024 3:11 am

What do you do when your passion and career trajectory have been infected with amorality? This is the question I was forced to ask myself after over a decade of working toward what I thought was to be my goal:...