{"id":1373048,"date":"2022-03-12T06:53:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T11:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373048"},"modified":"2022-03-12T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:55:51","slug":"a-whopping-85-of-maryland-students-are-not-proficient-in-math-after-covid-school-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-whopping-85-of-maryland-students-are-not-proficient-in-math-after-covid-school-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whopping 85% Of Maryland Students Are Not Proficient In Math After COVID School Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fa-whopping-85-of-maryland-students-are-not-proficient-in-math-after-covid-school-closures%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=1373048&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-521066936.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A full 85% of students in Maryland are not proficient in math, in large part due to the COVID-19 shutdowns of the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Baltimore <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/amp\/news\/project-baltimore\/staggering-learning-loss-85-of-maryland-students-tested-were-not-proficient-in-math\">reported<\/a> that results from recent state test scores revealed the \u201cstunning amount of learning loss,\u201d a prediction the outlet said experts made during the pandemic that has now come true. Fox reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The pandemic created a debate over education. On one side, some parents, and Baltimore City Schools CEO Sonja Santelises, were saying students need to be learning in person.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe gap is getting wider,\u201d Amy Adams, a parent in Baltimore County, told Project Baltimore back in October 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe are not raising the bar. We are lowering the bar,\u201d added Sara Russell, another parent in Baltimore County who spoke with Fox45 News in 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>During a news conference in January 2021, Santelises supported a return to the classroom, saying \u201cTo ignore that \u2014 we do have families that want an in-person option \u2014 would be irresponsible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But on the other side of the debate, were the teachers\u2019 unions and those fighting to keep learning virtual.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe don\u2019t want anyone forced back into buildings until it\u2019s safe,\u201d Diamonte Brown, the president of the Baltimore Teachers Union, said back in July 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It appears the harm done to students by closing down schools is now apparent, with the scores from the 2021 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program \u2013 the first standardized state tests students have taken since the beginning of the pandemic \u2013 showing dire numbers in proficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The test difficulty was even reduced for students, who took a shorter test in the fall that was for a grade level below their current grade. Even that didn\u2019t improve scores.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Baltimore City, less than 7 percent of students tested in third through fifth-grade math scored proficient. That means more than 93 percent are not proficient in math. The results for English Language Arts are just as alarming. The data shows 91 percent of students tested in third through fifth grade are not proficient,\u201d Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just Baltimore seeing issues, either. Across Maryland, 81% of students taking the grade three through five tests were not proficient in math, with 76% not proficient in English Language Arts.<\/p>\n<p>For middle schoolers in Baltimore, around 95% who took the seventh- and eighth-grade tests were not proficient in math. The numbers weren\u2019t much better across the state, with 94% not proficient in math at those grade levels.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire has documented, the problems for Baltimore students in particular are staggering. At one Baltimore high school, 77% of students were found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/77-of-students-at-one-baltimore-high-school-read-at-elementary-kindergarten-level\">to read<\/a> at an elementary or kindergarten level. And as another result of the COVID closures, four in 10 Baltimore public high school students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/following-covid-4-in-10-baltimore-public-high-students-earned-below-a-1-0-gpa\">earned below a 1.0 GPA<\/a>. What\u2019s worse, failing grades <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/baltimore-city-schools-a-failing-grade-wont-stop-students-from-moving-up\">won\u2019t keep students<\/a> from moving on.<\/p>\n<p><em>Enter for the chance to hang out with Gina Carano at the premiere of her new Daily Wire movie, Terror on the Prairie! Two lucky Daily Wire members will be given the complete red carpet treatment \u2013 free airfare, hotel, premiere car service, and exclusive merch. Daily Wire members can click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/redcarpet\">here<\/a> to enter for a chance to win. If you\u2019re not a Daily Wire member yet, click <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/subscribe\">here<\/a> to join us so you can win this once-in-a-lifetime experience.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A full 85% of students in Maryland are not proficient in math, in large part due to the COVID-19 shutdowns of the past two years.Fox Baltimore reported that results from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1373048","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\/1373048","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373048\/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=1373048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}