From the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress—a test given periodically to the nation’s students—the 2024 reading and math test given to 4th and 8th graders has further demonstrated the need for immediate change to America’s system of education.
This from frontpagemag.com.
Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the NAEP, said:
The news was especially bleak for our lowest performing students, who are reading at historically low levels.
We need to stay focused in order to right this ship.
NOTE: 4th graders continued to lose ground, with reading scores slightly lower, on average, than in 2022 and much lower than in 2019.
Further:
– In 2019, 35% of 4th-graders scored at or above the test’s reading proficiency standard, but that figure dropped to 33% in 2022 and, further, to Read more…
