The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has chosen Lamesa’s North Elementary School fourth grade as a testing site for its national benchmark test next Thursday, Feb. 7. The NAEP selects multiple schools across the nation every year to test students, glean overall student average scores and to set national standards for learning. NAEP is the only assessment that measures what U.S. students know and can do in various subjects across the nation, states and in some urban districts. Also known as the Nation’s Report Card, NAEP has provided important information about how students are performing academically since 1969. Texas’s written state assessments ...