“The latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress is further evidence of what the Biden-Harris administration recognized from Day One: that the pandemic would have a devastating impact on students’ learning across the country and that it would take years of effort and investment to reverse the damage as well as address the 11-year decline that preceded it," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.
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The decline in scores of the students tested – a nationally representative sample of nearly 9,000 seventh and eighth graders – follows a series of disheartening reports from Carr this school year about the post-pandemic status of younger students in math and reading, eighth graders on a more advanced test of the same subjects as well as in American history and civics. In reading, a student might have been asked to discern the feelings of a character in a brief reading passage.
Skills tested on the math portion of the long-term trend assessment for 13-year-olds included calculating the area of a square and multiplying a three-digit number by a two-digit number. “The big message here,” Carr said, is “it is a long road ahead of us.”ĭistracted students, stressed teachers What an American school day looks like post-COVID Students’ math skills continue to decline Her message to schools and policymakers: Keep going with all of the interventions and add-ons to help students not just recover from what they lost during the pandemic but advance beyond that. “This is a very serious matter,” said Peggy Carr, head of the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the tests. The slide in reading affected nearly as wide a group of students.Īverage math scores are about how students did in 1990 average reading scores are similar to 2004. The declines cut across essentially every race, affected girls and boys, and occurred for students in almost every type of setting – urban, rural, or suburban.
The results from a version of the Nation’s Report Card known as the long-term trend assessment, published Wednesday, show an especially notable slide in math that continues a trend predating the pandemic. There’s yet more evidence that students have lost significant ground following the wobbly shift to pandemic-era remote classes that stretched for months: New data show the nation’s 13-year-olds are struggling with basic math and reading skills.
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