On Tuesday, the K-12 sector got yet another sobering reminder of the pandemic’s drastic, negative and far-reaching impact on student learning — a grim reality it has grappled with in the past few years.
As educators continue to address these impacts through learning recovery measures, the latest results for the Nation’s Report Card released Tuesday further illuminate the extent to which the COVID-19 left its mark.
According to the results released by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics, high schoolers are graduating with weaker math and reading skills as the gap between higher and lower-performing students widens in most areas. The results also show that the pandemic impacted 8th grade science achievement.