Education and pandemic - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:04:43 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Education and pandemic - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 National data shows US students still ‘stalled' after pandemic https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/07/17/national-data-shows-us-students-still-stalled-after-pandemic/ Mon, 17 Jul 2023 05:51:54 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=161388 A new national survey shows students in the United States are still struggling to make up learning loss experienced over the course of the COVID-19 crisis. The report this week from NWEA examined test scores from nearly 7 million elementary and middle school students in about 20,000 public schools around the US. The researchers found Read more

National data shows US students still ‘stalled' after pandemic... Read more]]> A new national survey shows students in the United States are still struggling to make up learning loss experienced over the course of the COVID-19 crisis.

The report this week from NWEA examined test scores from nearly 7 million elementary and middle school students in about 20,000 public schools around the US.

The researchers found that "achievement gains in 2022-23 lagged pre-pandemic trends" in nearly all surveyed students, with numbers "falling short of pre-pandemic averages by 1-19% in reading and by 6-15% in math."

The NWEA noted that the decline was sharper than what was observed in 2021-2022. Reading in upper-level grades suffered the most, the researchers said.

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