{"id":1061675,"date":"2021-11-28T11:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T16:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061675"},"modified":"2021-11-28T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T16:13:54","slug":"national-assessment-reveals-significant-drop-in-13-year-olds-reading-math-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-assessment-reveals-significant-drop-in-13-year-olds-reading-math-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"National Assessment Reveals Significant Drop in 13-Year-Olds\u2019 Reading, Math Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnational-assessment-reveals-significant-drop-in-13-year-olds-reading-math-scores%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1061675&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ap_katerina-maylock_ap-photo-wi-e1515507414603.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A measure of long-term trends in the assessment of 13-year-olds\u2019 reading and math achievement has revealed a statistically significant drop in scores over the past eight years, another outcome that points to the failure of the Common Core State Standards.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage Foundation Center for Education Policy researchers Nick Storz and John Schoof <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/11\/22\/did-common-core-standards-contribute-to-slide-in-8th-grade-math-scores\/\">observed<\/a> the statistically significant decline in the scores over the past eight years is the first in the 50-year history of the National Assessment of Educational Progress\u2019 2020 Long-Term Trend Assessment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDespite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/10\/22\/school-spending-up-test-scores-down\/\">record-high education spending<\/a>, these declines are the latest evidence casting significant doubt on Common Core\u2019s learning standards and approach to student improvement,\u201d the researchers noted at the Daily Signal.<\/p>\n<p>While the test scores of nine-year-olds showed improvement for two decades, current scores were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/ltt\/mathematics\/student-group-scores\/?age=9\">found<\/a> to yield no change since the test was administered in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Reading scores, however, for 13-year-olds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/ltt\/reading\/student-group-scores\/?age=13\">dropped<\/a> by three points, and math scores for students of the same age <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/ltt\/mathematics\/student-group-scores\/?age=13\">fell<\/a> by five points.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Though high-performing 13-year-olds showed little to no decline in math scores between 2012 and 2020, struggling students of the same age showed significant drops in scores over the eight-year period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudents scoring in lower testing percentiles experienced the most&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/ltt\/mathematics\/higher-lower\/?age=13\">distressing declines<\/a>,\u201d Storz and Schoof observed. \u201cThe math score of the median student dropped by five points, the 25th percentile fell by eight points, and the 10th percentile fell by a shocking 12 points.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What the data reveal is that \u201c13-year-old students scoring in the 10<sup>th<\/sup> percentile dropped more than the equivalent of a full grade year in math capabilities below where they were in 2012,\u201d the researchers noted. \u201cBlack students and students in the 25<sup>th<\/sup> percentile were close behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scores of black students fell eight points and Hispanic students dropped four points, results that once again point to a widening achievement gap.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.192307692308\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr. Peggy Carr, Associate Commissioner, notes that the lowest performing students\u2013those readers who struggle the most\u2013have made no progress in reading since the first assessment almost 30 years ago. Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EWajchXvIH\">https:\/\/t.co\/EWajchXvIH<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NAEPDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NAEPDay<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9zanK5fPmv\">pic.twitter.com\/9zanK5fPmv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NAEP, The Nation&#8217;s Report Card (@NAEP_NCES) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAEP_NCES\/status\/1189611197257125888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The devastating outcome follows a study released in April 2020 by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/04\/27\/historic-drop-u-s-reading-math-scores-common-core-debacle\/\">found<\/a> a historic drop in national reading and math scores among U.S. students since the adoption of the Obama-era Common Core State Standards a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearly a decade after states adopted Common Core, the empirical evidence makes it clear that these national standards have yielded underwhelming results for students,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pioneerinstitute.org\/academic-standards\/study-finds-historic-drop-in-national-reading-and-math-scores-since-adoption-of-common-core-curriculum-standards\/\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Pioneer Executive Director Jim Stergios in a statement at the time. \u201cThe proponents of this expensive, legally questionable policy initiative have much to answer for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study, titled \u201cThe Common Core Debacle\u201d and authored by education policy researcher Theodor Rebarber, asserted how the \u201cshocking trends\u201d in American student performance in critical math and reading skills since the creation of the U.S. Education Department 40 years ago should now call for a reevaluation of federal involvement in education.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.2336448598131\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Common Core has been a disaster. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nmWkNSOuhF\">https:\/\/t.co\/nmWkNSOuhF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1254979928031985664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Performance in reading and math since the adoption of Common Core has especially declined in the nation\u2019s lowest-achieving students \u2013 many of whom come from low-income families and failing public schools \u2013 widening the achievement gap and creating further inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Rebarber&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pioneerinstitute.org\/academic-standards\/study-finds-historic-drop-in-national-reading-and-math-scores-since-adoption-of-common-core-curriculum-standards\/\">noted<\/a>&nbsp;U.S. school children have suffered as a result of the poor-quality Common Core, yet another leftist education reform touted at the federal level:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p>Dissatisfied with the pace of improvement, most states were persuaded to set aside their own efforts for the promise of a single set of national curriculum standards: the Common Core. Substantive criticism of the national standards, especially by a group of scholars and experts associated with Pioneer Institute, found them not to be internationally competitive, weak on literary content, and based on misguided progressive instructional assumptions and dogmas. In response, Common Core proponents mostly circled the wagons and refused to address substantive criticism of the quality of the standards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe sustained decline we\u2019re now seeing, especially among our most vulnerable students, simply cannot be allowed to continue,\u201d Rebarber said at the time of the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for federal law to change to allow states as well as local school districts to try a broader range of approaches to reform,\u201d he added. \u201cWith a more bottom-up approach, more school systems will have the opportunity to choose curricula consistent with our international competitors and many decades of research on effective classroom teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A measure of long-term trends in the assessment of 13-year-olds\u2019 reading and math achievement has revealed a statistically significant drop in scores over the past eight years, another outcome that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1061675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}