Math and reading scores have taken another blow as schools struggle to rein in pandemic learning loss, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Average math scores for ...

The bad news: In both reading and math, most fourth- and eighth-graders in 2024 still performed below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. Education Congress poured billions of dollars into schools.

As with math, these declines aren’t entirely the fault of the pandemic. Fourth-grade reading scores began falling years earlier, around 2015. Only one state, Louisiana, saw its 2024 fourth-grade ...

Math scores rose a bit for fourth-graders — a bright spot — but were flat in eighth grade compared to 2022. “I don’t know how ...

Just as any student can invent a dodgy excuse for a bad report card, the state Department of Education’s cheerleaders are full of explanations for recent mediocre SAT test scores: Bad math ...

Math scores are down, ... First they must face the reality of just how bad this problem has become. Even before COVID, our schools were on a slide to the bottom.

Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary has blamed low math and reading scores in U.S. schools on unions. "Our reading and math scores are the worst in the G7 and the G20 in terms of how many dollars ...

Maybe a bad virus. Among all states, Florida students ranked fourth from last on the standardized exam used to gauge readiness for college. Among states where at least 50,000 students took the ...

Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary has blamed low math and reading scores in U.S. schools on unions. "Our reading and math ...