{"id":1629693,"date":"2022-09-01T12:51:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T16:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629693"},"modified":"2022-09-01T12:51:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T16:51:45","slug":"math-and-reading-scores-plummeted-for-students-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/math-and-reading-scores-plummeted-for-students-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Math and Reading Scores Plummeted for Students During Pandemic"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fmath-and-reading-scores-plummeted-for-students-during-pandemic%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=1629693&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><\/div>\n<p>Nine-year-old students&#8217; reading and math scores have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/highlights\/ltt\/2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dropped dramatically<\/a>\u00a0over the last two years, according to a new report from the\u00a0National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s history, dropping 7 points from 2020. The NCES&#8217;s nationally representative report specifically examined student achievement during COVID-19 lockdowns. The center is expected to release a broader report\u00a0later this year as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation&#8217;s Report Card.<\/p>\n<p>These results add to the mounting evidence of the pandemic&#8217;s alarming impact on American education.\u00a0In May, a Harvard study of virtual learning during the pandemic found that K-12 students\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/remote-learning-was-even-more-harmful-than-previously-thought-research-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost 50 percent<\/a> of their typical math curriculum learning in the 2020-2021 school year. The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-science-health-race-and-ethnicity-milwaukee-5ab5394b2513e7136b9b854355770a1a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported last month<\/a>\u00a0that after two years of virtual and hybrid learning, many students\u00a0are significantly less prepared for college.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/01\/us\/student-test-scores-drop\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> CNN that the NCES data &#8220;is very alarming. It&#8217;s disturbing. But it&#8217;s not surprising, keeping in mind a year and a half ago over half of our schools were not open for full-time learning.&#8221; Cardona&#8217;s remarks are a shift from last year, when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/miguel-cardona-no-need-remote-hybrid-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that keeping schools closed as long as they were &#8220;wasn&#8217;t a mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/whatsnew\/commissioner\/remarks2022\/8_31_2022.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote in a statement<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s been much speculation about how shuttered schools and interrupted learning may have affected students&#8217; opportunities to learn,&#8221; Carr wrote. &#8220;Our own data reveal the pandemic&#8217;s toll on education in other ways, including increases in <a href=\"https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/schoolsurvey\/spp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">students seeking mental health services<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/schoolsurvey\/spp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">absenteeism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubs2022\/2022092.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">school violence and disruption<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubs2022\/2022092.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cyberbullying<\/a>, and nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/schoolsurvey\/spp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher and staff shortages<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine-year-old students&#8217; reading and math scores have dropped dramatically\u00a0over the last two years, according to a new report from the\u00a0National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"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-1629693","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\/1629693","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\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629693\/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=1629693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}