Recent test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress reveal a troubling trend in student achievement in the wake of pandemic-era school closures. Fourth and eighth-grade students exhibited no improvement, with significant declines in basic reading and math skills. The data indicated the largest percentage of eighth-graders reading below the basic level in assessment history, and the gap between higher and lower-performing students has widened significantly. Experts stress that urgent action is needed to address these declining scores and the ongoing challenges faced by lower-performing students, particularly in reading.
Instead of hoped-for improvements from pandemic-era campus closures, math and English test scores of fourth- and eighth-graders largely held steady or declined nationwide.
In eighth grade, higher performers regained ground lost and their lower-performing peers continued to decline or show no notable progress.
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