Louisiana standardized test scores drop during pandemic
3 years, 4 months ago

Louisiana standardized test scores drop during pandemic

Associated Press  

— Louisiana’s public school student performance on key standardized tests plunged in the last school year, according to state education data released Wednesday that provides the first glimpse of how students fared during the coronavirus outbreak. Jim Garvey, the longest serving member of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, said he expected the decline in scores to be twice as large amid back-to-back interrupted school years. “This LEAP 2025 data will be invaluable in guiding our instructional, policy and resource allocation decisions as we recover and accelerate from this unprecedented interruption to student learning,” state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley said in a statement announcing the results. Educators said online learning posed huge problems for a state where two-thirds of students live in low-income homes and internet access is patchy, especially in rural areas.

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Test results for Georgia schools rise again in 2024, remain below pre-pandemic outcomes
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Test results for Georgia schools rise again in 2024, remain below pre-pandemic outcomes

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Georgia students showed progress on standardized tests given in the 2023-2024 school year, but it’s far from a quick rebound to pre-pandemic achievement levels as students in some grades and subjects aren’t showing a clear recovery. Students in grades 3 through 8 as well as high schoolers take tests in math and English language arts, while a few …

Test scores show L.A. students still struggling to recover from pandemic setbacks
1 year, 2 months ago

Test scores show L.A. students still struggling to recover from pandemic setbacks

LA Times  

Los Angeles schools Supt. Los Angeles Unified students continue to struggle from pandemic learning setbacks, state test scores show, with modest progress in math, but largely flat or slightly declining results in English. Alberto Carvalho said he is pleased that the percentage of students who met learning standards in math rose at all grade levels that take part in the …

L.A. students’ grades are rising, but test scores are falling. Why the big disconnect?
2 years ago

L.A. students’ grades are rising, but test scores are falling. Why the big disconnect?

LA Times  

Claudia Chacon said her two children, who attend Fairfax High School, bring home good grades in math and English. “My fear is that grades can be a smokescreen for serious holes in knowledge and skill, and that’s not good,” said Robin Lake, director of the research group the Center on Reinventing Public Education. “And anyone who contradicts that is not …

California test scores show deep pandemic drops; 2 in 3 students don’t meet math standards
2 years, 2 months ago

California test scores show deep pandemic drops; 2 in 3 students don’t meet math standards

LA Times  

Two out of 3 California students did not meet state math standards and more than half did not meet English standards on state assessments taken in the spring, reflecting sizable drops in performance compared with the year before the pandemic, when large numbers of students were already struggling to meet grade-level expectations. Eighth-graders in nearly every state and fourth-graders in …

Test scores across U.S. reveal ‘heartbreaking’ pandemic declines, with math hit hard
2 years, 2 months ago

Test scores across U.S. reveal ‘heartbreaking’ pandemic declines, with math hit hard

LA Times  

Eighth-grade students at Wilson Middle School in San Diego sit at a classroom table. National test scores show that eighth-graders in nearly every state across the nation, including California, saw drops in average math scores since the pandemic. Eighth-graders in nearly every state across the nation and fourth-graders in a large majority of states, including California, saw significant drops in …

Kentucky test scores reveal struggles caused by pandemic
2 years, 2 months ago

Kentucky test scores reveal struggles caused by pandemic

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Education in Kentucky faces its own difficult recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, a grim fact revealed Tuesday by statewide test scores showing that many students from elementary to high school struggled across a span of core subjects. Education Commissioner Jason Glass acknowledged there’s “no quick fix” to overcome challenges caused by the pandemic, when schools shifted to …

ACT test scores drop to lowest in 30 years in pandemic slide
2 years, 2 months ago

ACT test scores drop to lowest in 30 years in pandemic slide

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Scores on the ACT college admissions test by this year’s high school graduates hit their lowest point in more than 30 years — the latest evidence of the enormity of learning disruption during the pandemic. “Every time we see ACT test scores, we are talking about skills and standards, and the prediction of students to be successful and …

Worst national reading and math scores in decades show large pandemic-fueled equity gaps
2 years, 3 months ago

Worst national reading and math scores in decades show large pandemic-fueled equity gaps

LA Times  

Students at Marlton School in Los Angeles walk with L.A. Unified Supt. Alberto Carvalho said he has reviewed unreleased state tests scores in the nation’s second-largest school district that “show devastating loss in terms of student achievement levels, particularly in reading and mathematics.” Average math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests fell 7 points to 234 on …

Reading, math scores fell sharply during pandemic, data show
2 years, 3 months ago

Reading, math scores fell sharply during pandemic, data show

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Math and reading scores for America’s 9-year-olds fell dramatically during the first two years of the pandemic, according to a new federal study — offering an early glimpse of the sheer magnitude of the learning setbacks dealt to the nation’s children. Reading scores saw their largest decrease in 30 years, while math scores had their first decrease in …

Disappointing test figures show students are still struggling to get back into school-mode
3 years, 1 month ago

Disappointing test figures show students are still struggling to get back into school-mode

NL Times  

Poor results of the first "normal" test week of this academic year show that kids are still having a hard time getting back into the swing of things at school. "The test period in November is usually not the best of the year," rector Jan-Paul Beekman of the Spinoza Lyceum in Amsterdam said to Trouw. Rector Wim van de Eshof …

Thousands of students have dropped out of school due to Covid-19. These are the educators trying to track them down
3 years, 9 months ago

Thousands of students have dropped out of school due to Covid-19. These are the educators trying to track them down

CNN  

CNN — The first thing you need to know about dropping out of school is that it doesn’t happen all at once. Enrollment is down across the board,” said Jessica Irving-Marin of Youth Empowerment Project, a program which helps high school students who can’t or won’t go to traditional school pass the equivalent of the GED administered in Louisiana. “What …

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