The percentage of fourth grade students who read at or above a “proficient” level dropped from 31% in 2022 to 26% in 2024.

New national test scores ... 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 graders.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress released its findings for national assessment scores. It samples fourth and ...

Reading test score declines began in 2019, were exacerbated because of pandemic-related ... stressed teachersWhat an American school day looks like post-COVID Widest achievement gap between most high- ...

Educators in New Jersey are wondering where to go from here after disappointing standardized test scores. Eighth grade ...

The National Assessment of Educational Progress test ... state's reading scores are below the national average. That’s despite recent efforts to change how preschool through fifth-grade ...

The most recent exam was administered in early 2024 in every state, testing fourth- and eighth-grade students on math and reading. “The news is not good,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the ...

Last year, 45% of Delaware fourth grade students scored below basic reading levels on the NAEP test, which is 2 percentage points better than the results in 1998 and 2022.

One of California’s starkest — and most important — letdowns is the consistent failure to help elementary and middle school students achieve higher national test scores in basic educational ...

Texas’ fourth- and eighth-grade students’ overall reading and math scores dropped in 2024, though Texas children learning English and Black fourth-graders ranked near the top of the country in some of ...

Fourth and eighth grade Austin students had dips in reading scores from 2022 to 2024, mirroring trends in classrooms across the nation, according to results from the National Assessment of ...