The 2024 Nation’s Report Card showed Tennessee is for the first time outpacing the nation and performing in the top 25 states in both reading and math, thanks to historic investments in Tennessee’s academic strategy to help students recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Just a few short years after school closures, NAEP scores and the state’s TCAP assessment results demonstrate that Tennessee is well on its way to academic recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Chelsea Crawford, Executive Director of TennesseeCAN. “Now is the time to double down on implementation of the Tennessee Literacy Success Act and the Tennessee Learning Loss Remediation and Student Acceleration Act— policies and practices passed in 2021 that are proven in boosting student success.”

The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, results ranked Tennessee 13th in the nation for fourth-grade math, 21st in the nation for eighth-grade reading.

Learn more about the NAEP results from the 50CAN network.