null / Element5 Digital on UnsplashBoston, Mass., Oct 26, 2022 / 07:45 am (CNA).The pandemic s negative effect on learning was more pronounced among fourth- and eighth-graders at public schools than among their Catholic school counterparts, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Education. The new data comes from The National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly referred to as The Nation s Report Card. The assessment tests the academic achievement of private and public school students across the nation.Children in grades four and eight were tested on both math and reading on a scale of 0 to 500. The report measured their progress from 2019 to 2022.Mathematics scoresPublic school fourth-graders saw their average score in mathematics nationally drop to 235, five points lower than pre-pandemic in 2019. Eighth-grade public school students national average in math dropped eight points, from 281 in 2019 to 273 in 2022. Catholic school fourth-graders averaged 2.
“If Catholic schools were a state, they’d be the highest performing in the nation on all four N.A.E.P. tests,” Kathleen Porter-Magee, the superintendent of Partnership Schools, pointed out on Twitter.
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