{"id":1687681,"date":"2022-10-13T08:24:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T12:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687681"},"modified":"2022-10-13T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:00:20","slug":"act-scores-fall-to-lowest-average-in-30-years-due-to-pandemic-era-learning-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/act-scores-fall-to-lowest-average-in-30-years-due-to-pandemic-era-learning-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Scores Fall to Lowest Average in 30 Years Due to Pandemic-Era Learning Loss"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fact-scores-fall-to-lowest-average-in-30-years-due-to-pandemic-era-learning-loss%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=1687681&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:\/\/mediadc.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/ba8e6a8\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1254x658+0+89\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmediadc-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc6%2Fad%2F1c5d943843e5961a93bc67721b57%2Fistock-492198113.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">T<\/span>he average <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/standardized-tests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACT score <\/a>for <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/high-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high school<\/a> graduates in 2022 was a full half a point lower than the year before and the lowest composite score average in three decades, according to a new report. <\/p>\n<p>The average score on the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/higher-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mainstay college entrance exam<\/a> for high school graduates in 2022 was a 19.8, the lowest in 30 years and a significant drop from the 20.3 average turned in by the class of 2021. The <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.act.org\/content\/act\/en\/research\/services-and-resources\/data-and-visualization\/grad-class-database-2022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> is the latest evidence of widespread learning loss brought about by extended school closures. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/randi-weingarten-ripped-for-visiting-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US TEACHERS UNION HONCHO RIPPED FOR VISITING UKRAINE TO &#8216;ASSESS THE SITUATION&#8217;<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The ACT said that the declines in the overall score are an ongoing trend that predates the pandemic and coincided with a decrease in the percentage of students who met performance benchmarks in various subjects, which measure a student&#8217;s likelihood of success in a given subject at the college level. <\/p>\n<p>The report found that 42% of test-takers failed to reach any of the necessary benchmarks in English, reading, science, and math, a 4% increase from the year before. Conversely, only 22% of students who took the ACT achieved the benchmarks in all four subjects, down from 25% the year before. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the fifth consecutive year of declines in average scores, a worrisome trend that began long before the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has persisted,\u201d ACT CEO Janet Godwin said in a press release. \u201cThe magnitude of the declines this year is particularly alarming, as we see rapidly growing numbers of seniors leaving high school without meeting the college-readiness benchmark in any of the subjects we measure. These declines are not simply a byproduct of the pandemic. They are further evidence of longtime systemic failures that were exacerbated by the pandemic.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Godwin said that returning to the pre-pandemic educational &#8220;status quo&#8221; would be &#8220;insufficient and a disservice to students and educators.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These systemic failures require sustained collective action and support for the academic recovery of high school students as an urgent national priority and imperative,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p>Conservative activists took the news of the report as an opportunity to highlight the need for expanded school choice policies. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i>, Laura Zorc, a former Florida school board member and the executive director of Building Education for Students Together, blasted the news, saying, &#8220;Retooling education to appease activists, shutting down schools, and trying to hide falling language arts and math proficiencies in K-12 education is failing our kids.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Students graduating from high schools across the country today are less prepared for life, work, and even college,&#8221; Zorc said. &#8220;It is time for state education dollars to follow students, not systems, which would allow parents to remove their kids from failing government schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average ACT score for high school graduates in 2022 was a full half a point lower than the year before and the<\/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-1687681","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\/1687681","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=1687681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687681\/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=1687681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}