The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America’s students know and can do. It is a congressionally mandated project of the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics. NAEP measures student achievement in reading, mathematics, writing, science, U.S. history, geography, civics, the arts, and other subjects. Since 1969, NAEP has surveyed the achievement of students at ages 9, 13, and 17 and, since the 1980s, in grades 4, 8, and 12.

The National Assessment Governing Board

The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) was created by Congress to formulate policy for NAEP. Among the Board’s responsibilities are developing objectives and test specifications and designing the assessment methodology for NAEP.

Members

Mark D. Musick, Chair
President
Southern Regional Education Board
Atlanta, Georgia

Michael T. Nettles, Vice Chair
Professor of Education
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Melanie A. Campbell
Fourth-Grade Teacher
Topeka, Kansas

Honorable Wilmer S. Cody
Former Commissioner of Education
State of Kentucky
Frankfort, Kentucky

Daniel A. Domenech
Superintendent of Schools
Fairfax County Public Schools
Fairfax, Virginia

Edward Donley
Former Chairman
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Allentown, Pennsylvania

Thomas H. Fisher
Director
Student Assessment Services
Florida Department of Education
Tallahassee, Florida

Edward H. Haertel
Professor
School of Education
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Juanita Haugen
Local School Board Member
Pleasanton, California

Honorable Dirk Kempthorne
Governor of Idaho
Boise, Idaho

Honorable Nancy Kopp
State Legislator
Annapolis, Maryland

Honorable Ronnie Musgrove
Governor of Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi

Roy M. Nageak, Sr.
State School Board Member
Barrow, Alaska

Debra Paulson
Eighth-Grade Mathematics Teacher
El Paso, Texas

Honorable Jo Ann Pottorff
State Legislator
Wichita, Kansas

Diane Ravitch
Research Professor
New York University
New York, New York

Sister Lourdes Sheehan, R.S.M.
Secretary for Education
United States Catholic Conference
Washington, D.C.

John H. Stevens
Executive Director
Texas Business and Education Coalition
Austin, Texas

Migdania D. Vega
Principal
Coral Way Elementary Bilingual School
Miami, Florida

Deborah Voltz
Assistant Professor
Department of Special Education
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

Honorable Michael E. Ward
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
North Carolina Public Schools
Raleigh, North Carolina

Marilyn A. Whirry
Twelfth-Grade English Teacher
Manhattan Beach, California

Dennie Palmer Wolf
Director
Annenberg Institute
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

Grover (Russ) Whitehurst
(Ex-Officio)
Assistant Secretary of Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
U.S. Department of Education
Washington, D.C.