Not Good

[Jolly]

Last week, the National Assessment of Education Progress issued its latest long-term trend assessment report. The results are clear: We are failing to teach our children the basics of math and reading. These results are based on tests taken before the pandemic. Just imagine how much worse the next round of tests will be due to all the interruptions to learning and education, as well as the additional stress caused by the pandemic.

The report, titled "The Nation's Report Card," show that we are getting worse, not better, at teaching our children reading and math. This should concern everyone -- parents, teachers, employers, educations, politicians and even students.

The "NAEP is a congressionally mandated project administered by the National Center for Education Statistics, within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences," according to its website, nationsreportcard.gov. Project administrators are tasked by the government to give our education system a report card. This latest report card, based on the recent data, shows that we need to return to the basics.

"Compared to the previous LTT assessments in 2012, the 2020 reading scores for both 9- and 13-year-olds performing at the 10th percentile were lower," the report noted. "In mathematics, scores were lower in 2020 for 9-year-olds at the 10th and 25th percentiles and lower for 13-year-olds performing at the 10th, 25th and 50th percentiles compared to scores in 2012." There was no case of any improvement from the 2012 LTT scores in either math or science in any percentile. The only trend was down.

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https://townhall.com/columnists/jackiegingrichcushman/2021/10/21/back-to-the-basics-n2597780