When the Department of Education released data earlier this week documenting what America’s fourth- and eighth graders know and can do in math and reading, the impact of the coronavirus on K-12 education, the most comprehensive examination of the impact from the pandemic to date: Some looked back as their long-standing assumptions about the impact were confirmed.
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Nationwide, students posted the largest math score drop ever recorded in the history of the assessment. Across all subjects, public school students in most states experienced significant declines in scores between 2019 and 2022.
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Peggy Car, Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, the Department of Education’s research arm, said: “The findings show the profound toll on student learning during the pandemic, as the magnitude and scope of the decline is the largest ever seen in mathematics. which published the data on Monday.
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Scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as NAEP or “The Nation’s Report Card,” are administered to fourth and eighth grade students in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Educational Activity schools of the Department of Defense and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Schools of education are surrounded. Puerto Rico (in math), and 26 large urban school districts that voluntarily participated. The national results reflect a composite measure of student performance in public, private, Department of Defense and Indian Bureau of Education schools.
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In the US, fourth graders’ average math score dropped 5 points from 2019, while eighth graders’ scores dropped 8 points. In reading, the average score for both grades decreased by 3 points.
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In addition, the proportion of students below the “basic” level, the lowest level of academic performance, increased. In math, a quarter of fourth graders in 2022 were below baseline and 38% of eighth graders were below NAEP baseline. In reading, the percentage of students below the NAEP baseline increased by 3 percentage points in both grades.
