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Reading and math scores on national exams for students in Massachusetts have dropped to their lowest levels in nearly two decades.

Closely watched scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, declined sharply after pandemic school disruptions.

Student test scores saw precipitous declines in math and reading over the past two years, according to new data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly known as the nations report card.

No state or large urban district showed improvements in math.

In 2022, average scores in Massachusetts, like many other states, fell by an unprecedented amount in just two years.

The test measures reading and math proficiency for fourth- and eighth-graders. Its administered every two years, but the pandemic delayed the 2021 report until now.

The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America's children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of a national test that provide the sharpest look yet at the scale of the crisis.

Fourth- and eighth-graders had the largest-ever decline in math this year in nearly every state, according to a national ...

Nationwide, the results show students in fourth and eighth grade saw declines in math and reading between 2019 and 2022. It relates it back to pandemic disruptions.

"Let me be very clear: these results are not acceptable," Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said.