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a new report is showing that test scores for 13-year-olds in reading and math are plummeting nationwide. according to the report, the average math score for that age group is down 9 points from 2019, while reading scores are down 4 points, as well. this comes as students, teachers and educators continue to grapple with the fallout of how covid-19 severely impacted classrooms all over the world. joining us now, senior reporter for "pro publica," alec mcgillis. his reporting sheds light on one virginia community that is grappling with this. you're looking at richmond. i'm curious if you could give us the lay of the land there. first of all, how severe is the learning loss? can you characterize that more for us?
issue across the board than it ever has before. >> gillian: and what remains to be seen, bret, both sides hash out this issue is how all this plays in terms of student performance. because the reality, whether you support democrats or republicans, there is a crisis for north carolina students. academic performance, at least as measured by test scores, has dropped precipitously since the part of the pandemic. in math, average score for 4th graders dropped five points from 2019 to a score 236. average math score dropped ten points, the national average fell to 273. so not so far behind the rest of the nation but it is pretty abysmal. >> it's bad, and some states are worse than that. education becomes a major issue. not only because of the school
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joe, math score dropped by five points since this test was last administered. math score whopping 8 points reading scores 3 points all across the board. what do you have to say about this and did you see this coming? >> well, this report card is devastating and yes, we did see it coming, as as a parent of young children who lived through lockdowns, remote learning, masking our children for far too long in schools, the fact that this report card shows the largest drops ever reported in fourth and eighth grade map is shocking but not surprising. not one has apologized. inflation, crime, gas prices and the border. election day. what happened to our children in schools and keeping them out, is something that parents, voters, they have not forgotten. they are going to make their voices heard about two weeks from now, guys. >> carley: i want to get to the midterm elections, joe, we are
virtually. cnn's 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 students in just about every demographic declined, but the kid who were hit the hardest were the ones who were already struggling in school. their scores dropped the most. here's how education secretary miguel cardona reacted to the results this morning on "new day." >> it's not surprising, keeping in mind, a year and a half ago, over half of our schools were not open for full-time learning. we need to give our teachers what i call the abcs of
students and the results are simply alarming. for the first time since data collection began in 1971 math scores are down and reading scores hit a three-decade low. the findings from the national center for education statistics compared scores from this year to early 2020. the math score went down 20 points. black and hispanics decreased more than white and urban students fared worse. reading scored dropped five points across the country for whites, blacks and hispanics. the drop remains about the same. reading scores in the northeast and midwest dropped more than most. an education policy expert at brown university says most schools could not cope with the pandemic. >> to the big picture report card i could give a letter grade of an f. i think that the country as a whole did not meet the needs of the students during this time
covid eras of closed schools the average math score for a 9-year-old. the average reading score dropped 5 points education progress. >> we have 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. >> dr. fauci disagreed. just last week. >> well, i don't think it's forever irreparably damaged anyone. >> emails late last year show the centers for disease control director was coordinating reopening with teachers unions before making them public. now devastating data. miguel cardona says we must repair the damage done by donald trump's mismanage of the pandemic and we will. democrats who criticized republicans for reopening schools too soon now say republicans are to blame. our schools went from 46% to open to nearly all of them being open to full time. that was the work of this president. and that was the work of
voters are moving towards republicans. and even among black voters, donald trump improved a percentage of black voters of the presidential level from 8% to 12% from 2016 to 2020. that is a 50% improvement. that is going in the wrong direction. why? the economy, crime, school choice. urban parents one school choice, particularly among black parents. they know they are getting the worst teachers come the worse. krantz, and the worse outcomes. i ran for governor as you know and prepend them, 75% of black boys in california could not read and state levels of proficiency in the math score was even worse. half of all third-graders in our government schools cannot read at state levels of proficiency. and again, math scores are even worse. so school choice, which was used in virginia, republicans are gaining ground among so-called voters of color and the democrats are scared sleepless and they should be. >> jesse: the democrats
statement about all of the things that general information cannot see. and that's why an application ought to, as you say, have an interview, have an essay. i really want to be clear, we're not displacing those things. that would be crazy. >> is it the role, though, of the college board to be involved in this issue? don't the applications already afford opportunity for students to tell their story? see, my real problem is that in the end, and i recognize it might not be student specific, but it's still a numerical value that will be looked at in the context of their verbal and math score. >> what's cool is the application process you that care about remain s intact. there will be that general back ground. it will be all of the information the student provide that is not being changed about all of the individual information you care about. let's talk about why you might do that, why it might be decent to do that. right now, colleges get school profiles from schools so they try to get a sense of where the