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Drucker: COVID-19 pandemic wiped out 20 years of educational progress

Romy Drucker · Classroom 2050: Unleashing AI, XR, Gaming · Jul 27, 2023 · at 4:40

Romy Drucker, Director of the Education Program at the Walton Family Foundation, summarizes the overall loss in student achievement following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“And the pandemic erased two decades of progress that we had made in education through a variety of different change initiatives.”

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The COVID-19 pandemic eliminated two decades of educational progress achieved in the United States through reform initiatives.

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Official post-pandemic national assessment reporting from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) published in 2022 and 2023 confirms that national score declines erased approximately 20 years of gains in both math and reading. Specifically, the 2022 Long-Term Trend results for 9-year-olds showed math scores falling to 1999 levels (a 23-year rollback) and reading scores falling to 2004 levels (an 18-year rollback), prompting NCES officials to state that student performance had fallen to levels last seen two decades ago. Main NAEP assessments for 4th and 8th grade math similarly dropped to 2003 levels, erasing 19 years of academic progress.

NCES Long-Term Trend assessment (September 2022) showed 9-year-old math scores dropped to 1999 levels (23 years of progress erased) and reading scores dropped to 2004 levels (18 years erased).
NCES Acting Associate Commissioner Daniel McGrath stated that students in 2022 were performing at levels last seen two decades ago.
Main NAEP 2022 results showed 4th and 8th grade math scores dropped to levels last recorded in 2003, erasing 19 years of progress.

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[1] ed.gov [2] edweek.org [3] ed.gov [4] aeaweb.org [5] thecurrentga.org [6] nationsreportcard.gov [7] nationsreportcard.gov [8] nagb.gov

NAEP 2022 math reading scores erased two decades 20 years NCES NAEP two decades of progress math reading 2022 2023

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