NAPE results tell the U.S. and the rest of the world that 50% of all graduating U.S. high schoolers cannot read, write, or do arithmetic at NAEP proficiency.
NAPE (rhymes with cape) is a 1969 Congressional Act, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It is often referred to by Big Media as the “nation’s report card.” As its name suggests, NAEP is an assessment. Every two years test questions are given to a sampling of students across the U.S. in the 4th, 8th, and 12th grades.
When the NAEP results are published (every two years) Big Media has a field day. The sad, “near-criminal” NAEP results are a “cruel handicap” for the unfortunate 50%. NAEP results are a “gut punch” to the United States, to K-12 teachers, and to parents.
Even though NAEP findings are a proxy for the performance of K-12 students in America’s K-12 school system, and even though international tests such as TIMSS and PISA are not favorable for the U.S., THE OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS VOTE THE U.S. K-12 SYSTEM AS THE BEST IN THE WORLD. (The vote is unanimous.)
NAEP and HSe4Metrics.
Thanks to Congress, NAEP provides a longitudinal reference. However, since the NAEP Act was signed into law, the old saying that “what gets measured gets fixed” has NOT been the case—simply look at NAEP results today.
Nonetheless, for HSe4Metrics, NAEP is a powerful tool to track the impact of the HSe4Metrics social media app on K-12-student performance.
The cap rate upside for K-12 students.
Whether K-12 young people are high NAEP achievers, or currently poor performers, or whether they feel lost somewhere in between, almost all of these young people (the high-achievers, too) are leaving behind much of their personal promise and cap rate potential—perhaps forever if they fail to capitalize during the one-time windfall opportunity of their K-12 years.
The consequences for the lowest performers can be horrific, but not so fast, it’s not just the lowest performers who suffer. The highest performers, too (albeit a metric not captured by NAEP), even if getting top grades, share the very sickening risk of failing to reach critically deeper during the K-12 years to ultimately further excel.
Both the lowest and highest NAEP cohorts stand to gain immensely by being part of the HSe social media app. In addition, the vast cohort of students in the middle is a human capital goldmine of unknowable yield.
Having the HSe4Metrics social media app throughout K-12 (and years before kindergarten) for each of these three broad groups can mean, well, everything, in the life of a K-12 student and for a lifetime thereafter. (This is a due diligence topic to be had with potential sponsors contemplating sponsorship of the social-good of the HSe4Metrics social media app.)
For all three groups (low performers, middle, and high) is the HSe4Metrics social media app innovation.
Let’s test it.