Across the Board, Scores Drop in Math and Reading for U.S. Students

[Wingnut]

The latest results from the Nation’s Report Card show declines in student performance across demographics.

By Lauren Camera, Senior Education Writer Oct. 30, 2019, at 12:01 a.m.
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U.S. Students’ Scores Drop in Math and Reading

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U.S. students' reading scores have fallen in several age groups and achievement levels since 2017, a new report finds.

MATH AND READING SCORES for fourth- and eighth-graders in the United States dropped since 2017, and the decrease in reading achievement has government researchers particularly concerned.

"Over the past decade, there has been no progress in either mathematics or reading performance, and the lowest performing students are doing worse," Peggy Carr, associate commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said during a press call Tuesday.

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The 2019 National Assessment of Education Progress, also called NAEP or the Nation's Report Card, was administered to more than 600,000 students enrolled in public schools and Catholic schools from every state and Washington, D.C., and also includes a break-out of student achievement in 27 large urban school districts.

Most notable were the score drops in reading, which occurred in 17 states with regard to fourth grade reading scores and in 31 states for eighth grade reading scores. On average, reading scores declined for fourth graders by 1 point and for eighth graders by 3 points compared to 2017.

"A 3-point decline for the country is substantial in as much as 31 states are driving it, large states, small states – and it's a very meaningful decline," Carr said.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2019-10-30/across-the-board-scores-drop-in-math-and-reading-for-us-students

Lets fix this.  All we need to do is through more money at the problem!  That always works. /s

[skeeter]

The good news is they lead the world in their grasp of the challenges facing the LGBTIQ community.

And racism.

[Wingnut]

The good news is they lead the world in their grasp of the challenges facing the LGBTIQ community.

And racism.

Seems there is a detrimental effect on these young skulls of mush when one is fully woke. 

[Sighlass]

Books.... Toughest Video Games in the Universe.

[mountaineer]

First Common Core High School Grads Worst-Prepared For College In 15 Years
This is the opposite of what we were told would happen with trillions of taxpayer dollars and an entire generation of children who deserve not to have been guinea pigs in a failed national experiment.
By Joy Pullmann
October 31, 2019

For the third time in a row since Common Core was fully phased in nationwide, U.S. student test scores on the nation’s broadest and most respected test have dropped, a reversal of an upward trend between 1990 and 2015. Further, the class of 2019, the first to experience all four high school years under Common Core, is the worst-prepared for college in 15 years, according to a new report.   ...

“The results are, frankly, devastating,” said U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a statement about the 2019 NAEP results. “This country is in a student achievement crisis, and over the past decade it has continued to worsen, especially for our most vulnerable students. Two out of three of our nation’s children aren’t proficient readers. In fact, fourth grade reading declined in 17 states and eighth grade reading declined in 31.”   ... More at The Federalist

[Applewood]

This is what happens when kids are indoctrinated, not taught.

[mountaineer]

This is what happens when kids are indoctrinated, not taught.

There are times I'm glad I have no children. There are other times I think about how I might have saved a child from government indoctrination by teaching him or her myself. 

[dfwgator]

This is what happens when kids are indoctrinated, not taught.

Parents are responsible for their children's education, not the schools, and that's even if you don't homeschool.

[Absalom]

First Common Core High School Grads Worst-Prepared For College In 15 Years
This is the opposite of what we were told would happen with trillions of taxpayer dollars and an entire generation of children who deserve not to have been guinea pigs in a failed national experiment.
By Joy Pullmann
October 31, 2019
For the third time in a row since Common Core was fully phased in nationwide, U.S. student test scores on the nation’s broadest and most respected test have dropped, a reversal of an upward trend between 1990 and 2015. Further, the class of 2019, the first to experience all four high school years under Common Core, is the worst-prepared for college in 15 years, according to a new report.   ...
“The results are, frankly, devastating,” said U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a statement about the 2019 NAEP results. “This country is in a student achievement crisis, and over the past decade it has continued to worsen, especially for our most vulnerable students. Two out of three of our nation’s children aren’t proficient readers. In fact, fourth grade reading declined in 17 states and eighth grade reading declined in 31.”   ... More at The Federalist

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Predictable malarkey about nothing; namely College, common core, test scores and the rest.
Plato, Archimedes, Sophocles, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, the Scholastics, Shakespeare, Mozart,
to name a few, never had college degrees, the poor things, yet managed to transform the world!

[mountaineer]

Plato, Archimedes, Sophocles, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, the Scholastics, Shakespeare, Mozart,
to name a few, never had college degrees, the poor things, yet managed to transform the world!

Yeah, too bad today's children have no clue who those people are.

[Applewood]

Parents are responsible for their children's education, not the schools, and that's even if you don't homeschool.

Well, that's the way it SHOULD BE.  But these days, parents have abdicated responsibility for everything involving their children, including education, to the state. 

[truth_seeker]

Jonathan Haidt, co-author of "The Coddling of the American Mind."



The findings include that the typical 18-19 year old college freshmen, have the maturity of 1-15 year olds from just a few years before.