‘Fail Our Children’: New Data Shows Just How Badly Student Learning Suffered As Schools Doubled Down On DEI
Student test scores remain below pre-pandemic performance, even years later, as many schools continue to focus on promoting far-left ideology over core education. The Nation’s Report Card released its 2024 data…
Student test scores remain below pre-pandemic performance, even years later, as many schools continue to focus on promoting far-left ideology over core Education.
The Nation’s Report Card released its 2024 data Wednesday which revealed declining reading scores for fourth and eighth grade students and stagnant math scores for students in both grades. One-third of eighth graders, the largest percentage ever recorded, failed to reach the National Assessment of Educational Progress’s (NAEP) reading benchmark.
“When we fail our children, we fail our nation’s future,” Republican Michigan Rep. Tim Walberg, chairman of the Education and Workforce Committee, said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Today’s NAEP scores continue the concerning trend of declining performance nationwide. This is clearly a reflection of the Education bureaucracy continuing to focus on woke policies rather than helping students learn and grow.”
The latest reading scores follow a downward trend that has been ongoing since 2019, with a five-point decline overall, the data shows. Math scores for fourth-grade students increased slightly by just two points since 2022.