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Posted on 09/09/2025 11:52:39 AM PDT by DFG
The writing’s on the wall — if you can read it.
Sobering national test results show more high school seniors are struggling with math and reading than at any point in recent decades, with Education Secretary Linda McMahon calling out a “devastating trend” Tuesday.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — commonly referred to as the Nation’s Report Card — showed just 35% of high school seniors were proficient in reading, the lowest score since the assessment began in 1992.
The math score for 12th-graders was even worse, with just 22% achieving proficiency, the lowest point since the current test began in 2005.
“American students are testing at historic lows across all of K-12,” McMahon said in response to the scores, which were extracted from tests administered to thousands of students in early 2024.
“Nearly half of America’s high school seniors are testing at below basic levels in math and reading,” she went on. “The achievement gap is widening, and more high school seniors are performing below the basic benchmark in math and reading.”
The average score on the 12th-grade math and reading assessments dropped three points from 2019. Among fourth-graders, the average math score was also three points lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic, while eight-graders saw their average decline eight points from five years earlier. Average scores on the fourth- and eighth-grade reading exam dropped by five points between 2019 and 2024.
“These results are sobering,” National Center for Education Statistics Acting Commissioner Matthew Soldner said in a statement. “The drop in overall scores coincides with significant declines in achievement among our lowest-performing students, continuing a downward trend that began even before the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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Wait until they introduce “woke” math.
They’ll be so confused they won’t be able to find their way to the door.
Hey hey hey hey
Hey Stoopid
LOL
We’re screwed
Yeah, it was the COVID school closures. Let's ignore the spread of swarthies, especially those aided in invading the United States.
All by design.
True story.
Agreed. Import the 3rd world and become the 3rd world.
I think the curriculum also has something to do with it.
So reeducation camps will actually be to educate people to
read and write and do math.
So you're saying COVID is making future generations stupid?
The reeducation Mafia use COVID as a free pass card.
Xi much happy
We all know why but are not allowed to say.
There’s two forces at work here.
1. The dumming down of public education
2. A very large percentage of kids entering school not speaking a word of English.
IMO-—”PARTICIPATION TROPHIES” ALSO ARE A LARGE FACTOR
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In King County Washington where my wife and I live over $20,200 was spent per student in the 2020 to 2021 school year... The actual figures are carefully hidden for the years since, but our property taxes have gone up 50% since that time and most of those funds goes to schools. At the same time student performance has continued to crater at an ever-increasing rate.
And yes, Washington State and especially King County is a “sanctuary state” and where we live it is a dumping ground for 3rd world illegal immigrants. When we go to the store we are outnumbered by about 10 to 1 most of the time. This was even true when we went to the Western Washington State Fair in Pierce County. Every day we make more plans to jump ship.
If you break out rhe demographics, you see that Asians and “whites” score above both the National and international averages. Hispanics below and Blacks well below. Taken as a whole, the results look bad.
ChatGPT.
Teachers union says they demand more money
Such bad test results and these maggots demand more money
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