Commentary When reading and math scores came out last month and showed an alarming drop in academic achievement, nobody should have been surprised. What else was going to happen when schools locked down, planted kids in a room at home, and attached them to a screen six hours a day? Did anybody but the most…

California’s elementary children are still struggling to meet literacy standards in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic—but a recent study shows districts that implement literacy programs improved their students’ reading and writing scores regardless of demographics and resources. A recent study by the literacy advocacy group California Reading Coalition found that in 2022, only about…

Commentary While President Biden is trying to win a court victory for his student debt forgiveness proposal, he should be focusing instead on the latest dreadful report by the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP). In what is called the nation’s report card, NAEP has released its latest findings on the performance of fourth- and…

Commentary In a predictable, yet nonetheless shocking outcome, the latest scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) record the biggest decline in math in three decades. In mathematics, eighth grade students’ NAEP scores dropped eight points from 2019 to 2022, according to results released Monday. Just 26 percent of eighth graders now perform math proficiently, down from 33…