Years After the Pandemic, the Lowest-Performing Students Are Still Significantly Behind
New test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, indicate that four years after the onset of the pandemic lockdowns, American schoolchildren are still struggling to catch up to pre-pandemic achievement levels.
“Today’s NAEP results reveal a heartbreaking reality for American students and confirm our worst fears: not only did most students not recover from pandemic-related learning loss, but those students who were the most behind and needed the most support have fallen even further behind,” reads a Wednesday Education Department press release. “Change must happen, and it must happen now.”
These latest NAEP results looked at achievement for fourth and eighth graders in reading and math. Overall, test scores declined slightly when compared to 2022, the last time students were tested and still remained below pre-pandemic levels. However, the most revealing results came when separating student performance based on percentile. While students per
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