{"id":2380313,"date":"2024-12-15T15:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T20:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-data-school-leaders-say-40-of-students-are-behind-grade-level-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T20:18:34","slug":"federal-data-school-leaders-say-40-of-students-are-behind-grade-level-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-data-school-leaders-say-40-of-students-are-behind-grade-level-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal data: School leaders say 40% of students are behind grade level &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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%2Ffederal-data-school-leaders-say-40-of-students-are-behind-grade-level-washington-examiner%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=2380313&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--><p>The\u2064 provided content appears\u200c to be a snippet of HTML\u2063 code used \u2064for a user interface, specifically\u2064 a button labeled &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; which,\u2062 when clicked, triggers \u200da JavaScript function (`showReadMore()`)\u200d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ballot-choice-next-week-in-wisconsin-protests-biden-administration\/\" title=\"Wisconsin residents to vote on ballots amidst protests against Biden administration\">display additional content<\/a>. 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NCES data shows students are farther behind than before state and local governments closed schools during the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Before the pandemic, school leaders estimated that 32% of students were behind grade level in at least one area. In 2021-22, it rose to 45%, and in the 2022-23 school year, it reached 47%.<\/p>\n<p>The data shows school leaders were more likely to say students from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">low-income families<\/a> and in schools where the population was 76% or more students of color were behind, with 52% of students estimated to be behind where they should be.<\/p>\n<p>School leaders located in cities and at schools with fewer than 300 students reported that 48% of students were lagging academically.<\/p>\n<p>The data follows with <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">broader student academic achievement data<\/a> and other metrics that show the effects of the pandemic closures were not equitable to minority students, who suffered more significant declines in academic achievement.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found that students were more likely to be estimated to be behind in specific subject areas studied.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ninety-eight percent of public schools reported that at least some students were behind grade level in mathematics and English or language arts,&rdquo; the NCES said in its findings.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>School leaders said 76% of students were behind in the sciences, and 55% were behind in social studies.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; This story initially published at Chalkboard News, a K-12 news site that, like The Center Square, is also published by Franklin News Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1912495\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1912495\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal data shows 40% of students are behind grade level<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2380314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/iStock-1488384336-1024x567.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5152,46843,46844],"class_list":["post-2380313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-education","tag-federal-data","tag-school-leaders"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/iStock-1488384336-1024x567.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380313","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=2380313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380317,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2380313\/revisions\/2380317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2380314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2380313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2380313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2380313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}