The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called the nation's report card, shows a worrying trend: reading scores for both fourth and eighth graders have worsened in 2024. This decline adds to previous drops observed in 2022, highlighting an urgent need to address educational challenges. While there was some recovery in math scores, they haven't reached pre-pandemic levels. The report also underscores the widening achievement gap and the impact of chronic absenteeism on student performance.
Reading scores are declining for fourth and eighth grade students."There's a widening achievement gap in this country and it has worsened since the pandemic, especially for grade eight," said Peggy G. Carr.
Students are not where they need to be or where we want them to be, she said. Our students, for the most part, continue to perform below the pre-pandemic levels, and our childrens reading continues to slide in both grades and subjects."The report card, released every two years by the Department of Education, is the largest assessment of students performance in public and private schools across all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Despite the decline in reading, there was some recovery in math in 2024, but the increase has not returned students to pre-pandemic levels. The pandemic exacerbated the problems facing education in reading, math and history, according to NAEPs 2022 assessments. Fourth grade and eighth grade students saw their largest declines ever in math, and eighth grade students received the lowest history scores since 1994, when the history assessment was first administered.
Its important to note NAEP is a challenging assessment, according to Carr. Students results are scored as basic, proficient or advanced. Below basic scores do not mean a child cant read; however, Carr noted it is still worrying that scores continue to fall.
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