[ April 30, 2024 ]
The declines on the Nation’s Report Card (NAEP) for 13-year-olds are some of the WORST in the test’s history.
This is exactly what the Democrats wanted and needed. Dumb and dumber. How else could they get away with their catastrophic destruction?
The new “Nation’s Report Card” is out and the results are grim. Test scores are at their lowest level in decades, with steep declines in both reading and math proficiency in nearly every state. It’s the first comprehensive look at the pandemic’s impact on America’s students.
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Math and reading scores among America’s 13-year-olds fell to their lowest levels in decades, with math scores plunging by the largest margin ever recorded, according to the results of a test known as the nation’s report card.
Photo: Biden and education goon Randi Weingarten.
Gaps in reading and math scores btwn white & Black students – totalling 23 and 29 points in 2012 – grew to 27 and 42 points in 2023.
Worrisome indicators in behavioral screening:
⬆️ absenteeism
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— Karen Vaites (@karenvaites) June 21, 2023
‘Nation’s Report Card’ shows math skills reset to the level of the 1990s, while struggling readers are scoring lower than they did in 1971
By Kevin Mahnken, NAEP, June 21, 2023:
COVID-19’s cataclysmic impact on K–12 education, coming on the heels of a decade of stagnation in schools, has yielded a lost generation of growth for adolescents, new federal data reveal.
Wednesday’s publication of scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — America’s most prominent benchmark of learning, typically referred to as the Nation’s Report Card — shows the average 13-year-old’s understanding of math plummeting back to levels last seen in the 1990s; struggling readers scored lower than they did in 1971, when the test was first administered. Gaps in performance between children of different backgrounds, already huge during the Bush and Obama presidencies, have stretched to still-greater magnitudes.
The bad tidings are, in a sense, predictable: Beginning in 2022, successive updates from NAEP have laid bare the consequences of prolonged school closures and spottily delivered virtual instruction. Only last month, disappointing results on the exam’s history and civics component led to a fresh round of headlines about the pandemic’s ugly hangover.
But the latest release, highlighting “long-term trends” that extend back to the 1970s, widens the aperture on the nation’s profound academic slump. In doing so, it serves as a complement to the 2020 iteration of the same test, which showed that the math and English skills of 13-year-olds had noticeably eroded even before the emergence of COVID-19.
Long-Term NAEP Scores for 13-Year-Olds Drop for First Time since 1970s
Those disturbing findings, since aggravated by the greatest disruption in the history of American schools, look all the worse today. Reading scores fell by four points between 2020 and 2023, mirroring similar declines in other NAEP releases since last fall, while math scores math scores tumbled by nine points. But an even greater reversal — seven points in reading, and 13 points in math — can be measured going back to 2012, when long-term scores began to slip.
The results set off yet another chorus of alarm bells among federal officials. Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers NAEP, told reporters that they “should remind us that this is a huge scale of challenge that faces the nation today.”
“Certainly the pandemic has made things worse and made things more challenging for us,” Carr said in a media briefing. “But these troubling trends that we’re seeing date back a decade, particularly for our lower-performing students.”
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13 Comments
10 months ago
Black Lives Matter in Public Schools spells the end of America.
White and Asian families need to segregate themselves without delay.
D
10 months ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
And some of these migrant children can’t read/write their native language because they’ve never been to school.
10 months ago
OUR enemy attacks the children of their competition at every opportunity. They injure and murder the children of their competition at every opportunity.
They use the symbol of lions, and they behave like them.
10 months ago
Reply to
Zeus
In other words, this is one front in a war against our Republic and against The People of our Republic.
OUR enemy always ruled by bloodlines. Royal families on the other side of the Atlantic use lions in their symbols. The English used 3 lions.
10 months ago
Yeah, but our children can list all 57 genders and decide at around age 7 what sex they want to be without any parental interference. In fact, if any parent has a problem,with that, well, the children don’t belong to them ,anyway.They belong to the state.
And any parent who doubts that can just rot away in C2B with the January 6th “Terrorists.
D
10 months ago
Reply to
JoeyJ
Weingarten is surely proud that by that age, almost all 13 year-old’s are using their correct pronouns, whether the kids can spell “pronoun” or not…
10 months ago
Ayn Rand said on the old “Phil Donahue Show” that there should not be any public schools. We can now see what she meant.
10 months ago
The public school system has consistently been degraded for at least the last 40 years if not more.
10 months ago
The last taboo is uttering the word “obama” in association with all this race chaos that is destroying our country.
Then we need to zero out every penny of race based welfare, charity, subsidies, set-asides, carve outs, handouts and support for looting and lives of crime and all forms of “reparations” we have been extending to African Americans in the Trillions upon Trillions for more than a half century, and ask them if they ever wondered where their money came from.
Then reopen all the prisons and fill them up.
D
10 months ago
The covid kids.
D
10 months ago
ultimately when a check list is prepared it will B found that 100% of all their policies were—counter productive–Hard 2 believe it is by accident…
10 months ago
Thank woke and queers for making our kids dumb.
10 months ago
I think it is said our national IQ is now 97, down from 103 many, may years ago. This is not entirely due to immigration either. Dumb, lazy, pretty much unemployable people make money from having more children from the generous welfare system while average or above people are taxed to the point they can hardly afford children. The immigration thing (both legal and illegal) is a bigger problem though. Most of the illegals have at best an average IQ in the upper 80s and the worst of them are below 80. Why even the democoms can’t understand that this is a recipe for disaster is beyond me. It is not just the democoms that have their head in the sand, I have never heard any Republican bring this up as an argument against illegal immigration. It is a fact that the Jews have the highest IQ among any group;, followed by some Asian countries, then the white countries. The African countries are the lowest of all with some having IQs in the 50s. Overall, the average African IQ is around 70. We have enough dumb people without importing more.
