EDUCATION IN THE NEWS: FALLING TEST SCORES ILLUSTRATE THE DISASTER OF DISTANCE LEARNING

Chalk this up once again to Democrats ' obsession with rewarding political allies at the expense of the public.

New data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that student test scores nationwide suffered their worst decline in history.
The NAEP, also known as the Nation's Report Card, measures student proficiency in reading and math at the fourth and eighth grade levels. This year, it found that students at all levels, from the most advanced in the 90th percentile down to the lowest achievers in the 10th percentile, have seen a significant decline in their math and reading proficiency.

Although there are surely other culprits — in Virginia, for example, Democratic appointees watered down educational standards starting in 2015, followed by precipitous declines in proficiency — the obvious culprit for most of the national decline is distance learning during COVID.

And there's no question that the closures contributed significantly to the decline in learning. There are two proofs of this. First, Catholic schools almost everywhere were open full time by the fall of 2020, and on aggregate, the data show that they avoided the worst of the learning loss, avoiding declines in proficiency in fourth grade math and eighth grade reading.

Moreover, states that kept more schools open experienced smaller declines in proficiency than their peers — a statistically significant result that this chart illustrates graphically.  Read more at

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/falling-test-scores-illustrate-disaster-distance-learning#:~:text=Falling%20test%20scores,largest%20teachers%20union.

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