The "Nation's Report Card" by the National Assessment of Education Progress shows that math and reading scores of U.S. high schoolers has dropped to its lowest recorded level in decades.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said the decline in American students' literacy and math skills was a national emergency after grim results in the "Nation's Report Card."

High schoolers’ reading and math scores dropped to the lowest level in decades, along with declines in science scores from eighth graders, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP),