America’s kids are still behind in reading and math. These schools are defying the trend

How one school is making changes to combat pandemic losses in math and reading

While nationwide scores are still below pre-pandemic levels, some local districts are seeing improvements in math and reading.

American kids are behind in reading and math, these schools are defying the odds

In reading, especially, students are even further behind than they were in 2022, the analysis shows.

Hit by pandemic ‘aftershocks,’ kids fall further behind in reading, still trail pre-COVID peers

The average student is months behind their pre-pandemic peers, and kids have lost ground in reading since 2022, a new report finds. But there’s evidence interventions are helping.

America's kids are still behind in reading and math. These schools are defying the trend

Math is the subject sixth grader Harmoni Knight finds hardest, but that’s changing.In-class tutors and “data chats” at her middle school in Compton, California, have made a dramatic difference, the 11-year-old said. She proudly pulled up a performance tracker at a tutoring session last week, displaying a column of perfect 100% scores on all her weekly quizzes from January.

Students still lag in math and reading nearly 5 years after pandemic closed schools

The new Education Recovery Scorecard, a collaboration between researchers at Harvard and Stanford Universities, offers the nation the most-detailed-yet view of student learning in the wake of the pandemic, including more than 100 school districts where students are back to pre-pandemic achievement levels.

Federal assessments show reading and math performance drop in Florida, nation

Florida middle schoolers’ math and reading scores continue a decline that preceded the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Department of Education data released in January show. The data are not a fluke, as Education Commissioner Manny Diaz suggests, according to test administrators. Reading scores among eighth graders dropped in the last four iterations of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) by the U.S. Department of Education in 2017, …