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Mississippi. chokwe lumumba, thank you for being on this morning. >> thank you. >> all right. well be watching. up next, after six months of war, well introduce you to ukraines version of rosie the riveter, five mothers who are taking the fight to russia. plus, the pandemics effect on u.s. students. new test results showed it erased 20 years of progress in math and reading. were back in a moment. ♪ it wasnt me by shaggy ♪ youre never responsible for unauthorized purchases on your discover ca...

Teaching. agency, better working conditions, and then competitive schoolries. im confident were going to reverse that trend and go higher. >> now, experts have said that theres evidence school closures, remote learning have driven up some of the other issues that kids are now dealing with, mental health problems, absenteeism, bullying, and much more. and helping students actually catch up, well, that could take years. this morning, i spoke with a fourth grade teach er in texas. she told me she h...

To witness that and what exactly you can say? >> one of our ministry members said it looks like people are living in their cars and what we know is that unfortunately they are living in their cars while theyre waiting for water. school is out. so kids are doing their best to do a little school work in the back of a car, and so the salvation army, even next week, is saying how can we make sure we serve the whole family and help children catch back up in school because the cascading crisis is the ...

We sit up here, yes, chief bryant was hired to step up activities so this doesnt happen, but here we are today. and what i would say is, whatever theyre doing, its not working. >> yeah, so, listen, every incident, you have to take it separately. we cant compile them all together, but it is concerning when there are so many. there are changes being made according to the police department. this one is under investigation but your heartbreaks when you look at that video and you see another young bl...

We have failed them. they missed a lot over the last several years. it was suspected and now it is confirmed in these latest reports. >> yeah, devastation is the right word, sandra. we had been making slow but steady progress in math and reading over the last 20 years, we lost it all during covid, we lost it all. some of us, dr. saphier, a few other people, said in the summer of 2020 these kids are not going to get sick from this, they are the most protected, its the old people you got to worry ...

Into stacy bradys biology class. >> were almost full house today. >> reporter: this rural district outside phoenix cant find enough certified teachers, especially for math and science, so 13 classes are doubled up like this. some get an assistant. >> darius, huh-uh. >> reporter: others rely on a single teacher. >> what has it been like? >> to me its been chaotic. i wish i could clone myself because i cant get to every kid who needs help. >> have you ever seen a shortage this bad? >> no, i have n...

Math and reading scores for 9-year-olds in the u.s. fell dramatically between 2020 and 2022. one of the largest declines on record according to the national assessment of educational process. can that learning setback be made up? and >> well, i think it can be made up. its going to take resources. its going to take tutoring. and its going to take a commitment to not let any child be left behind. but what it says to me as well is that what we think about covid, when you think about the times were...

Virtually. cnns gabe cohen has this one for us. gabe, what did the report find? >> reporter: well, look, victor, alisyn, right now, schools are scrambling to get kids the resources they need, but this test result really shows the uphill battle that the pandemic has created. just look at these results again. the overall reading score on this test, down five points. that is the worst dropoff since 1990, and the math score, down seven points. that is the first ever decline in math. now, scores for ...

American 9-year-olds suffered a dismal drop in their math and reading scores during the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest federal assessment data shows.

Eligible people have gotten their first booster. >> were not going to eradicate covid-19. but we have to do what we can to hedge our behavior against any potential infections, fall surge, and also long covid. >> reporter: the new booster for children under 12 years old wont come for at least another month or two. and as kids head back to school, an alarming snapshot of covids toll on students. national testing for 9-year-olds revealed scores for math down seven points, and five points for readin...