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On average, education analysts say students’ math knowledge is about half a school year behind where it should be.

Across the country, schools are scrambling to catch up students in math as post-pandemic test scores reveal the depth of missing skills.

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind an elementary school.One by one, they raced to a table, where they scribbled answers to multiplication questions before sprinting back to high-five their teammate. These students are part of a summer p

Across the country, schools are scrambling to catch up students in math as post-pandemic test scores reveal the depth of missing skills.

“It’s a generation’s worth of progress lost,” says Andrew Ho, a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.

As students return to classrooms, 
schools are more expensive, 
more conservative, and more local 
than before.

Rethink the news: Reducing news to hard lines and side-taking leaves a lot of the story untold. Progress comes from challenging what we hear and considering different views.

Post-pandemic test scores reveal the depth of missing skills.

Across the country, schools are scrambling to catch up students in math as post-pandemic test scores reveal the depth of missing skills. On average, education analysts say students’ math knowledge is about half a school year behind where it should be. The plunge in scores exacerbated racial and socioeconomic inequities in math performance. And students aren’t bouncing back as quickly as hoped, supercharging worries about how they will fare in high school. Using federal relief money, ...

Americas difficult relationship with math can be tackled with a shift in mindset and instruction, says Shalinee Sharma, Cofounder of Zearn, a nonprofit math platform.