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The report this week from NWEA examined test scores from nearly 7 million elementary and middle school students in about 20,000 public schools around the U.S.

The poor numbers come as data indicate that many Catholic students enjoyed markedly less learning loss over the course of the COVID crisis than their public-s...

The NWEA noted that the decline was sharper than what was observed in 2021-2022.

In English language arts, 40.7 percent of students passed the exam, a dip of 0.5 percentage points.

SACRAMENTO, the United States, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Due to lengthy school closures, the academic performance of public school students in California, the most populous state in the United States, have returned to the levels of six years ago, a newly published report has found.

In English language arts, 40.7 percent of students passed the exam, a dip of 0.5 percentage points.

Pandemic recovery has essentially stalled for most of the nation’s students, new data shows, and upper elementary and middle school students actually lost ground this year in reading and math. On average, students need four more months in school to catch up to pre-pandemic levels, according to the results from NWEA, a nonprofit assessment provider. […]

The recent national assessment is devastating, finding no educational progress in more than 30 years.

Findings released by NWEA argued that U.S. students would need over four months of additional schooling to recover from post-pandemic 'achievement gaps.'

Students did not make the academic gains hoped for last school year, with test scores in key subjects showing lagging progress and in some cases further backsliding since the pandemic, according to a new study released Tuesday by NWEA, a nonprofit research organization. The group analyzed data from 6.7 million public school students from third…