In the latest release of federal test scores, educators hoped for a wide range of recovery from learning losses that occurred during COVID-19 pandemic.
Instead, the results from the national evaluation of last year's educational progress tells a strict story, especially in reading. The achievement slide continues.
According to NAEP, the ratio of eighth graders with “basic” reading skills was the largest in the three -year history, 33 %. The ratio of fourth graders in the “following basics” was the maximum of 20 years, up to 40 %.
Mathematics had progressed, but it was not enough to offset pandemic loss.
The recent decrease in reading has been reduced across race and class line. In addition, students who are at the top of the learning distribution are performing as well as pre -school schools, but drops for students who are struggling despite recent solid and ultra -partial movements. It is remarkable.
“Our lowest performance students are reading at a historic low level,” said Peggy Car, a commissioner at the National Educational Statistics Center, which offers the NAEP exam. “To correct this ship, you need to keep focusing.”
But the new presidential government's turmoil may threaten its focus. Federal test scores began to spread on the same day that many educators from all over the country have panicked, trying to identify how the White House will affect local schools with some federal funds. Ta.
On a telephone with a reporter, Dr. Car did not directly deal with President Trump's promise to close or significantly reduce the Ministry of Education of her work. However, she stated that the collection of educational data could change to promote the administration to take diversity, fairness, and comprehensive efforts.
The NAEP exam is considered to be more challenging than many state -level standardized tests. Still, it is shown that low scores lack the skills needed for school and work.
In fourth grade reading, students who are below the basic level in NAEP cannot sequence from the story or explain the effects of character actions. In eighth graders, students who score below BASIC cannot determine the main ideas of textbooks or identify aspects of discussions.
Dr. Car has pointed out the fourth grade of Louisiana as a rare bright place. The overall achievements of their overall reading were in line with the national average, but the wide bands of students matched or exceeded the preliminary results level.
Louisiana focuses on hiring reading science, a series of strategies to match the early literacy teachings to cognitive science research. The resulting orders usually focus on structured phonics and vocabulary buildings.
The approach has been widely used over the past five years, but has not yet led to the national learning profit.
Experts do not explain a clear reading result. Closed and other stresses related to the serious learning loss of COVID-19 pandemic began to decrease a few years before the emergence of the virus.
In a new paper, Nutmarkas, an educational researcher in the United States Enterprise Institute, points out that the decline in American children's performance is reflected in the same period of adult skills tests. Therefore, we often look at the classroom to understand why we do not learn many people in the classroom, but some of the causes may be due to screen hours, mobile phones, and social media. He claims.
Both children and adults watch more videos on their mobile phones. In other words, he said, “There is a movement of reading textbooks, but this is probably increasing over time,” he said. “The ability of the mobile phone to attract attention is shortened, and reducing the ability to concentrate on children is very likely to return home for a roost.”
In mathematics, high -level fourth graders (people who play with more than 75 percentile) have been doing the same as the same fourth graders in 2019.
In the eighth graders mathematics, only the highest students have improved, but they have fallen below the pre -school level.
“It's wonderful that more children are becoming more basic, but it's a middle point. Bob, the director of the Gates Foundation K-12 education, focusing on improving mathematics education.・ The fuse states: “The high -level mathematics that starts from junior high school is important.”
A student survey distributed with NAEP revealed that 30 % of the eighth graders were registered as algebra from 32 % in 2019.
Students' absentment has been improved in both fourth and eighth graders since 2022, and about 30 % of students have lost three days a year ago. However, at both grade levels, the absence remains significantly higher than before school.
Dr. Car said that his parents had an important message. If you want children to be academically excellent, you have to go to school regularly.
