The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as The Nation's Report Card, is the only national perspective on American education. The NAEP measures and reports on a regular basis what America's students know and can do in core subjects like reading, mathematics, writing, and science. As a congressionally mandated project of the National Center of Education Statistics (NCES) within the U.S. Department of Education, NAEP participation is required under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorized as Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015 for any district receiving Title I funding.