Pandemic shakes students from the course and confused learning nationwide. Hundred billion inches Federal rescue dollar Later, the strict evaluation indicates that students are still struggling to recover.
The national evaluation of education, known as the “national report card” obliged by the federal government of student performance, is considered to be one of the most accurate glimpse of domestic student learning.
The latest results released on Wednesday were not encouraging.
In particular, despite some improvements in fourth grade mathematics, the nationwide results are the biggest share of 8th graders who have expanded the gap between students’ performance and did not meet the basic reading comprehension ability in the history of evaluation. With the decrease in reading scores including, the national results have been poked.
“If there are signs of recovery, they are mainly mathematics and are mainly driven by highly performing students,” said Peggy Car, a commissioner at the National Educational Statistics Center, which manages the evaluation. I mentioned in the statement. “Low -performance students are still having a hard time reading,” she added.
“This is a difficult call for us to be here to restore it, and it will be clearly time -consuming.”
I’m having a hard time reading
The round before the evaluation results after the pandemic raised the alarm bell.
In 2022, when the first pandemic result returned, the national report card revealed that mathematics performance decreased and the number of leading scores in fourth and eighth graders. At that time, the authorities explained that the fall was “terrifying and unacceptable,” and was working on the worst performance.
For the past few years, the student’s performance has been stuck in the performance of the student whose course has been modified, and a tutor has been sufficiently spending. However, the major federal rescue funding program expired -a budget -based school found a creative way to maintain these efforts -and the latest test scores were the students before school. It indicates that it has not repelled the performance.
There were some good news in the latest NAEP evaluation.
Mathematics has revealed that the latest results have not changed significantly for eighth graders nationwide for the past two years. However, in bright places, fourth graders mathematics is slightly increasing. However, the average math score was still below the pre -school level.
Some states and urban areas have shown signs of recovery, such as public schools in Colombia’s special ward. Indicated bounce With 4th grade math performance.
Interestingly, the two states have actually defeated their pre -school performances against the trends of the nation. Louisianana I saw a collision in reading Alabama I saw it in mathematics.
However, the latest results overall are not the cause of the celebration, according to CARR of the National Education Statistics Center.
Reading scores are decreasing, and students with the lowest performance are struggling.
According to the survey, students who score at the “basic” level in the fourth grade reading can explain the plot sequence after reading the text. However, 40 % of the fourth graders did not meet their standards, the largest group below the excitement of 20 years. On the other hand, the score of 8th graders at the basic level can understand the main ideas from the information text. The third grader in the eighth grader fell below the criteria in the evaluation history.
During the phone, the car pointed out that these decreases continued to be before the pandemic, dating back in 2019.
Naturally, these difficult students are unlikely to read for joy and are less likely to appear in schools. If the students were not at school, they could not learn, which was emphasized by these data.
A troublesome gap
The result is nervous.
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Schools nationwide, like many districts, are in the right change in how to teach literacy. Adopt “Reading Science” The following approach Discussion on reading curriculum。
Serious teachers who faced the lack of budget also hurt schools nationwide.
So what is the first take -out?
People are interested in the fact that students have settled the lost ground during the pandemic, and the answer is no, and Alexander Kurz, the main consultant at the Public Education Center, says.
When he analyzes the data, he pays special attention to the gap.
For example, in mathematics, the gap between high -performance and low -performance students has been expanding since 2022, according to the latest evaluation summaries.
Kurz says that the gap continues to spread from 4th to 8th grade. If the student has a weak mathematics foundation, the subject tends to build it, so it may grow over time. For example, to understand the algebra, students must first grasp the concepts such as multiplication and fractions. Therefore, Kurz says that if the students have a gap in knowledge early and they are not satisfied, they are trying to build on an unstable Foundation.
Kurz says that it is important to carefully analyze the data because national statistics can hide related differences between sub -groups.
Nevertheless, researchers like KURZ and him want to find lessons on the cause of the gap in the next few weeks.