Nebraska’s Education Choice Opportunity
Nebraska students’ scores on each NAEP test dropped significantly, the Urban Institute found. The achievement gap for the state s students is wider than the national average and growing. It s time to try something different. (Photo: Will and Deni McIntyre/Getty Images)
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Lindsey M. Burke is director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy and Mark A. Kolokotrones fellow in education. Read her research.
At first glance, Nebraska’s K-12 education system seems to be doing fairly well. On the fourth- and eighth-grade math and reading components of the 2019 National Assessment for Educational Progress, Nebraska students scored slightly above average overall.