Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government The National Assessment of Educational Progress, which is also known as the Nation’s Report Card, recently released its first set of post-COVID test scores. The results weren’t pretty.
The average fourth grader’s reading score dropped 5 points since 2020 — the most significant drop among the age group in over two decades. The math test results were even worse as the average 9-year-old faced a 7-point drop, making it one of the most disappointing results in the test’s history. Moreover, lower-performing and disadvantaged students encountered greater test score losses than their peers, further widening the achievement gap.
These catastrophic results have left many in the K-12 education system wondering where to go from here…
