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WASHINGTON – Test scores in elementary school math and reading plummeted to levels unseen for decades, according to the first nationally representative report comparing student achievement from just before the pandemic to performance two years later. Math scores dropped seven points during that period, marking a first-ever decline, while reading scores slipped five points, producing […]

Conservatives, politicians, media personalities and more blamed Democrats and teachers unions for the "devastating" pandemic data release showing learning loss.

The findings offer an early glimpse of the sheer magnitude of the learning setbacks dealt to the nation's children during the first two years of the pandemic.

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said Thursday on CNN's "New Day" that the worst drop in math and reading scores in decades is disturbing but not surprising because of remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic. | Clips

All kinds of kids, from all kinds of families — rich, poor and middle class — need more help with reading than they’re getting in school.

Students' reading and math abilities plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic.

National test results scheduled to be released Thursday showed in stark terms the pandemic’s devastating effects on American schoolchildren, with the performance of 9-year-olds in math and reading dropping to

Reading scores saw their largest decrease in 30 years, while math scores had their first decrease in the history of the testing regimen behind the study.

Math and reading levels in K-12 schools from 2020 to 2022 have dropped back two decades from government lockdowns, according to a report by NAEP.

Over the last two years, 9-year-olds experienced historic declines in reading and math on a test that dates back to the 1970s.