Posted on 09/02/2022 5:52:53 AM PDT by george76
Nine-year-old students' reading and math scores have dropped dramatically over the last two years, according to a new report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the Department of Education.
In 2022 the average reading score for nine-year-old students declined 5 points from 2020, the largest drop since 1990. Average math scores for 2022 fell for the first time in the program's history, dropping 7 points from 2020. The NCES's nationally representative report specifically examined student achievement during COVID-19 lockdowns. The center is expected to release a broader report later this year as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation's Report Card.
These results add to the mounting evidence of the pandemic's alarming impact on American education. In May, a Harvard study of virtual learning during the pandemic found that K-12 students lost 50 percent of their typical math curriculum learning in the 2020-2021 school year. The Associated Press reported last month that after two years of virtual and hybrid learning, many students are significantly less prepared for college.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told CNN that the NCES data "is very alarming. It's disturbing. But it's not surprising, keeping in mind a year and a half ago over half of our schools were not open for full-time learning." Cardona's remarks are a shift from last year, when he said that keeping schools closed as long as they were "wasn't a mistake."
A lack of in-person learning is not the only way in which the pandemic has taken a toll on education, NCES commissioner Peggy Carr wrote in a statement Wednesday.
"There's been much speculation about how shuttered schools and interrupted learning may have affected students' opportunities to learn," Carr wrote. "Our own data reveal the pandemic's toll on education in other ways, including increases in students seeking mental health services, absenteeism, school violence and disruption, cyberbullying, and nationwide teacher and staff shortages."
Are we surprised by this outcome? Even Stevie Wonder could see this coming.
Not only Math scores. My grandson locked in his room, now won’t leave unless he has a mask. He went FULL BLOWN on social media and now he wants to be a woman. These lock down REALLY screwed us up. I wonder how many boys and girls watched porn all day, and what effect this will have? Anyone besides me seen this?
exactly.. and those that scored the lowest probably had parents that didn’t give a rip or didn’t know how to do math or read so they couldn’t help the kid.
The scores are an indictment of the failed City States that chose to desert their children
The City States dragged down the numbers of the entire nation
Not surprised. Kids suffered the most during the pandemic. I wasn’t teaching during that time, but my good friend who is a rank and file union dem school teacher just blindly follows the party line.
“The parents let us down...” she insists.
Apparently, they were supposed to take time off from work to do *their* job (their being the teachers).
“Afterall, We’re NOT babysitters...”
In my darkest moments, I’m pretty sure this was all by design to destroy a generation.
I’m truly sorry to hear what happened to your grandson. It disgusts me what happened during the covid scare.
But their make-up techniques have become fabulous.
For what its worth, maybe nothing....
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Crafty teachers use the students themselves as teaching aids, particularly in the fostering of cooperative competition between them, holding up the best students as paragon, praising their good learning habits, encouraging emulation & whatnot. And you need face-to-face interaction between students for that to be most effective.
It was the stupid response to the pandemic.
COVID infections were just like a bad flu, which could include hospitalization, for the worst of kids. Most seemingly got it and were nearly symptomless.
I believe you have properly ascertained what happened.
He wants to become the object of his affections.
I hope he grows out of it.
Even after FJB REDUCED THEM? MASKS ARE TO BLAME.
I’ve heard this news all day long today. It always begins with the statement that, prior to the pandemic, scores had been rising for twenty years. I doubt that ...
Yeah, even before the shutdowns scores were incredibly low. Going up one or two points over 20 years is not really an upward trend.
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