US education secretary: Results are unacceptable
Kayla Jimenez – USA TODAY – in the D&C on 10/25/22 on page 6A
As educators, community members and parents work to help kids catch up from pandemic-related learning loss through accelerated learning and highdosage tutoring, national test scores published Monday prove a loss already felt in America’s schools.
Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show dramatic and sobering declines in math and reading scores for the nation’s fourth and eighth graders, laying bare the ways pandemic-related disruptions damaged American students’ ability to learn.