{"id":1631871,"date":"2022-09-03T09:04:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T13:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631871"},"modified":"2022-09-03T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T13:05:05","slug":"federal-testing-shows-just-how-much-shuttering-schools-failed-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-testing-shows-just-how-much-shuttering-schools-failed-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Testing Shows Just How Much Shuttering Schools Failed Students"},"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%2Ffederal-testing-shows-just-how-much-shuttering-schools-failed-students%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=1631871&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><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Each year standardized federal testing takes the temperature, so to speak, of how America\u2019s nine-year-olds are faring in two critical skills; reading and mathematics. The age of these students puts them in the fourth grade and is widely believed as an indicator of how these children will do in high school and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This week\u2019s preliminary results have come out ahead of the annual National Report Card that will come out later this year, and the numbers were not good. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nevertheless, this is the first glimpse the country is getting of how badly shutting down schools during COVID and switching to remote learning negatively impacted children\u2019s capacity to learn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So, just how bad is it? Bad enough that not just parents should be paying attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Remember the shocking math and reading results yesterday? Here\u2019s the crew that made it happen \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yleEsxLjMs\">https:\/\/t.co\/yleEsxLjMs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karol Markowicz (@karol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karol\/status\/1565697648828579842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Two Steps Forward, Four Steps Back<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We seem to keep setting the worst kinds of records in this country, with education leading the pack in disappointment. The results of the federal testing showed the most significant decrease in reading scores in 30 years and the first decrease in history for math since we began administering national testing in the 1970s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), commonly referred to as our National Report Card, has been releasing results since 1969. Acting associate Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/01\/us\/student-test-scores-drop\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel McGrath<\/a> said of the dismal results:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThese are some of the largest declines we have observed in a single assessment cycle in 50 years of the NAEP program.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mr. McGrath goes on to state:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cStudents in 2022 are performing at a level last seen two decades ago.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Think about that for a second. Essentially two years of COVID shutdowns nullified two decades of educational progress.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">School shutdowns erased two decades of progress in reading and math.<\/p>\n<p>Hold the lockdown politicians accountable in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewPollackFL\/status\/1565371465620496386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/watch-moms-for-liberty-co-founder-calls-teacher-union-pres-randi-weingarten-the-worst-thing-to-ever-happen-to-public-education\/?utm_source=home-featured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: Moms For Liberty Co-Founder Calls Teacher Union Pres. Randi Weingarten \u2018The Worst Thing To Ever Happen To Public Education\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">By The Numbers<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Numbers generally don\u2019t lie, and the ones in this preliminary report provide some hard truths. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-science-health-race-and-ethnicity-education-4d02ce3fe0fe432efc68373ee961c5bb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For example<\/a>, since 2020, 9-year-old\u2019s math results have decreased by 7%, and reading scores dropped by 5% on average.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Why should we care about these scores? Director of the Annennberg Institute at Brown University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/01\/us\/national-test-scores-math-reading-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susanna Loeb<\/a> explains:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cStudent test scores, even starting in first, second and third grade, are really quite predictive of their success later in school, and their educational trajectories overall.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">For some, the numbers might not fully encapsulate what this learning loss means. So to explain a bit further, the average decrease in the reading scores indicates that many 9-year-olds can partially understand what they read; however, fewer can infer a character\u2019s feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">That\u2019s speaking to the comprehension level of these kids if you can\u2019t infer from reading the characters\u2019 feelings that speak to your ability to comprehend complex emotion and, perhaps most alarming, empathy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">For math, the results indicate that students know simple arithmetic concepts, but fewer can add fractions with common denominators.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fourth graders have posted the lowest test scores in 30 years. Despite the extremely poor performance in Math and Reading there is one bright spot. Students scored well on pronouns.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Laughing Libertarian (@William16723077) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/William16723077\/status\/1565739029940916226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/nyt-school-counselors-admit-pandemic-lockdowns-a-total-disaster-for-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYT, School Counselors Admit Pandemic Lockdowns A Total Disaster For Children<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nobody Should Be Surprised<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">These results shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone; you don\u2019t have to be a rocket scientist to know that in-person learning will always trump remote learning, especially for the younger age groups. Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/01\/us\/student-test-scores-drop\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona<\/a> isn\u2019t surprised:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThat is very alarming. It\u2019s disturbing, But it\u2019s not surprising, keeping in mind a year and a half ago over half our schools were not open for full-time learning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And who advocated for the extended closure of school again? I\u2019ll wait on that answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Even less surprising than the average decrease in scores is that minority groups and those in low-income areas were hit the worst. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/covid-science-health-race-and-ethnicity-education-4d02ce3fe0fe432efc68373ee961c5bb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In math, for instance,<\/a> white students, on average, saw their scores decrease by 5% from 2020, whereas black students plummeted by 13%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It should be noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/dc-mayor-bans-unvaccinated-children-from-attending-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser<\/a> requires D.C. students over 12 to be fully vaccinated before attending school this year, with no alternative for those who won\u2019t or can\u2019t get vaccinated. With only 53% of black students in D.C. in that age group vaccinated, it stands to reason that those students will continue to be adversely affected by poor policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Finger Pointing<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">When asked this week if the President believes his administration should shoulder any blame for these depressing results, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11170885\/Karine-Jean-Pierre-blames-TRUMP-schools-not-opening-drop-learning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> did what she does best, blamed Trump:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cLet\u2019s get back to where we were not too long ago, when this President walked into this administration, how mismanaged the pandemic the response to the pandemic was.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/white-house-falsely-claims-democrats-re-opened-schools-during-covid-in-spite-of-republicans\/?utm_source=home-headline-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House Falsely Claims Democrats Re-Opened Schools During COVID \u2018In Spite of Republicans\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, Republican Congresswoman and ranking member of the House Education and Labor Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11170307\/Republicans-blame-Democrats-union-bosses-fastest-drop-nine-year-olds-learning-50-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Foxx<\/a> believes someone else is to blame:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cPresident Biden, Randi Weingarten, and their Democrat counterparts across the country deserve equal blame for undercutting the educational pursuits of America\u2019s children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, the truth is the problem of educating America\u2019s youth runs deeper and longer than just the last two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORTER: &#8220;9 year olds lost ground in both math and reading pretty dramatic ways\u2026Does the administration shoulder any of the blame for not pushing schools to reopen sooner?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KJP blames the Trump administration for having &#8220;mismanaged the pandemic.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bi87akjSR7\">pic.twitter.com\/Bi87akjSR7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1565418632389304320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Hard Reality<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If you look at the data from previous years, the last decade has seen scores for reading and math plateauing, with the arrival of COVID a sharp decline. Given that there have been Republicans and Democrats in office over the last decade, the logical assumption can be made that neither party has really been hitting the mark on what it takes to elevate education in America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2019\/12\/03\/china-students-education-reading-math-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China outperforming<\/a> our students in reading, math, and science, it should be a wake-up call that what we have been doing hasn\u2019t been working in education. So what is the federal government doing to try to rectify this damage?<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is your reminder that China is #1 in reading and math scores, and America is #25.<\/p>\n<p>So, while some folks play partisan politics with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CRT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CRT<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DEI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DEI<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SEL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SEL<\/a> for personal gain, I\u2019m gonna stay over here beating <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EdPrep?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EdPrep<\/a> failure, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dysteachia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#dysteachia<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CurriculumFraud?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CurriculumFraud<\/a> drums.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LiteracyIsEquity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LiteracyIsEquity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E774hv3eAQ\">pic.twitter.com\/E774hv3eAQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marilyn Muller ~ #LiteracyIsEquity (@1in5advocacy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1in5advocacy\/status\/1458385626064199684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Throw money at the problem, of course. The federal government has budgeted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/01\/us\/national-test-scores-math-reading-pandemic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$122 billion<\/a> to help students recover from the learning loss caused by COVID lockdown policies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, with COVID stimulus money that was given to school districts still not spent, it\u2019s hard to visualize how more money is the solution to a problem that has been brewing for a decade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What Does Randi Have To Say?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One of the first Twitter accounts I looked at after hearing about the scores was none other than President of the American Federation of Teachers account Randi Weingarten, to see what she had to say about the bad news. Her response is pinned to the top of her Twitter feed:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThankfully after two years of disruption from a pandemic that killed more than 1 mil Americans, schools are already working on helping kids recover and thrive. This is a year to accelerate learning by rebuilding relationships, focusing on the basics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thankfully after two years of disruption from a pandemic that killed more than 1 mil Americans, schools are already working on helping kids recover and thrive. This is a year to accelerate learning by rebuilding relationships, focusing on the basics <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FuqozCPONK\">https:\/\/t.co\/FuqozCPONK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Randi Weingarten \u262e\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@rweingarten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1565350221306945537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Interesting talk from someone who recently said <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/teachers-union-president-randi-weingarten-claims-conservatives-the-enemy-of-educators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conservatives are the enemy<\/a> of educators and that Parental Rights Bills like the one proposed in Florida are \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/teachers-union-chief-says-floridas-parental-rights-bill-is-how-wars-start-and-shes-right-sort-of\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How wars start.<\/a>\u2018 Perhaps if she and those within the education business focused more on education and less on social ideologies and political pandering, the next generation of Americans would be better prepared for adulthood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I joined the co-founders of Moms For Liberty, a group taking on the failed public education system, to talk about it:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n[embedded content]\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Now is the time to support and share the sources you trust.<\/strong><br \/>The Political Insider ranks #3 on <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.feedspot.com\/political_blogs\/\">Feedspot\u2019s<\/a> \u201c100 Best Political Blogs and Websites.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year standardized federal testing takes the temperature, so to speak, of how America\u2019s nine-year-olds are faring in two critical skills; reading and mathematics. 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