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美国学校的坏消息：据周三全美教育进展评估成绩的发布，美国学生数学和阅读成绩呈下降趋势。 The National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP -- called the Nation's Report Card -- is an exam given to fourth-grade and eighth-grade students throughout the country by the National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the U.S. Department of Education. While students' scores have increased overall since the 1990s, results released Wednesday show a slight decline between 2013 and 2015. 全美教育进展评估项目——又称国家报告卡——这是由美国教育部分支——国家教育统计中心，给到全国所有四年级和八年级学生的一项考试。20世纪90年代的学生成绩是总体上升的，但是2013-2015年的学生成绩呈下降趋势。 Only 36 percent of fourth-grade students and 34 percent of eighth-grade students in 2015 scored high enough to be considered proficient or above in reading. In math, 40 percent of fourth-grade students and 33 percent of eighth-grade students scored proficient or above. 2015年，阅读成绩上，只有36%的四年级学生和34%的八年级学生取得的成绩达到了精通或以上;数学成绩上，有40%的四年级学生和33%的八年级学生所取得的成绩达到了精通或以上。 While the 2015 results are disappointing, experts caution that they should not yet be interpreted as a downward trend. Peggy Carr, acting commissioner of NCES said the drop in scores was "an unexpected one. ... This isn’t a pattern that we saw coming." | 
