The devastating effects of lockdown learning are becoming incredibly apparent. According to a report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also referred to as the “Nation’s Report Card,” math and reading skills have declined significantly in the wake of COVID lockdowns, Hannity reports.
“Average scores for age 9 students in 2022 declined 5 points in reading and 7 points in mathematics compared to 2020,” the report stated. “This is the largest average score decline in reading since 1990, and the first-ever score decline in mathematics.”
The report also found black students were impacted more severely.
“In mathematics, the 13-point score decrease among Black students compared to the 5-point decrease among White students resulted in a widening of the White−Black score gap from 25 points in 2020 to 33 points in 2022,” the NAEP reported.
Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics Peggy Carr expressed concerns ahead of the report’s release.
“There’s been much speculation about how shuttered schools and interrupted learning may have affected students’ opportunities to learn,” Carr wrote. “Our own data reveal the pandemic’s toll on education in other ways, including increases in students seeking mental health services, absenteeism, school violence and disruption, cyberbullying, and nationwide teacher and staff shortages.”
“I don’t think we can expect to see these 9-year-olds catch up by the time they leave high school,” Dr. Aaron Pallas, professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, told the Wall Street Journal about the report. “This is not something that is going to disappear quickly.”
And one would think that that’s all the children would have done all day!
It’s funny how all the parents who are busy 24/7 criticizng teachers and schools weren’t much better when they had the reigns in their hands.
most of our children who who are educated in day schools, yeshivas, bais yaakoves, and the like,can read, fluently, two different languages, with two different alphabets, in two different directions by the time they reach third grade. and they are trying to mess up our system of chinuch? perhaps they should be looking for help in our direction
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Eddy Grant was right. What does it help to learn mathematics if you still can’t put bread on your table?