Wisconsin education: Assessment scores improve after COVID dip
View Comments A recent national report from a Wisconsin assessment company suggests students have started to bounce back from the learning gaps first created last spring, when schools across the state were closed. Although the average student is still behind academic benchmarks based on how they would have been expected to grow and perform before COVID, students have made up ground since fall, according to a Wisconsin Rapids-based online testing program utilized by thousands of schools across the country, Renaissance Learning Inc. The amount of progress students made in reading and math is c...