/PRNewswire/ The reading and mathematics scores of 9-year-old students fell between 2020 and 2022, according to results from the National Assessment of.
in the last two years. the study focused on 9-year-olds think third and fourth grade students compared data from winter 2020 to winter of this year. the same survey found a major drop in math test scores down 7 points over the last two years. the commissioner of the national center for education statistics writes that covid-19 disruptions may have exacerbated had many of the challenges we were facing. we know that students who have struggled the most have fallen further behind their piers. data is likely to reignite the debate are. if not all schools are back full time. glenn youngkin who campaigned heavily on this issue about ending remote learning ending the mandates. is he proud to see where the commonwealth schools are now. all of you and many, many, many others across the commonwealth of virginia stood up and said enough. so we made great progress we
students and the results are simply alarming. for the first time since data collection began in 1971 math scores are down and reading scores hit a three-decade low. the findings from the national center for education statistics compared scores from this year to early 2020. the math score went down 20 points. black and hispanics decreased more than white and urban students fared worse. reading scored dropped five points across the country for whites, blacks and hispanics. the drop remains about the same. reading scores in the northeast and midwest dropped more than most. an education policy expert at brown university says most schools could not cope with the pandemic. to the big picture report card i could give a letter grade of an f. i think that the country as a whole did not meet the needs of the students during this time