The results in reading weren’t nearly as hopeful as they were in math: Fourth-graders continued to lose ground in 2024, with reading scores slightly lower, on average, than they were in 2022 and much ...

Reading skills have dropped. Pre-COVID, 41% of MCSD students met grade level literacy proficiency standards, according to the district. That number trailed the state average of 51%.

The nation's young people scored an average 5 points lower in reading than kids who tested before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, from 220 to 215 for fourth graders and from 263 to 258 for eighth ...

New national test scores show a bleak picture of American education in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.. Fourth and eighth graders' literacy skills dipped – once again – on the U.S ...

The research shows students' reading achievement in those grades dropped below pre-pandemic averages. Distracted students: What an American school day looks like post-COVID ...

Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America's schools, and new data, known as the Nation's Report Card, offers cause for hope — and concern. The good news: In math, many ...

“Our reading scores based on the state assessments, have been stagnant for the past few years, since COVID, much like the rest of the county, and much like the state,” said Sergio Mendez, MCSD ...

Reading scores for 8th graders have fallen in eight states and seven of the nation’s 25 largest school districts since 2022. The results are even worse compared to pre-COVID-19 pandemic tests ...

Reading scores in New Jersey have continued to fall since the COVID pandemic, ... "Some of that decline in reading nationally was pre-pandemic and in fact over 10 years.

RALEIGH — In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, student performance fell across much of the United States. According to a new study of 2022 math and reading scores, however, North Carolina ...

The gap between pre- and post-COVID reading scores has widened by 36%, and at the current pace, the average student needs nearly five more months of learning to catch up.

They leveraged the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study, comprising 4,005 individuals (26.8% women) between the ages of 20 and 74 (mean age = 51.8 yrs) and compared their CRF scores pre- and post ...