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It isn’t as if America’s schools were going gangbusters before the pandemic. The Programme for International Student Assessment has consistently found that American students lag behind other advanced, industrialized countries.

Students in all racial and ethnic groups saw their scores drop since 2019, exacerbating historic achievement gaps between white and Asian students and other students of color.

ATLANTA -- No one doubts that the COVID-19 pandemic hurt student learning. Now, much-anticipated test scores today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress pinpoint where impacts were greatest.

State math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress dipped significantly between 2019 and 2022, but reading scores for fourth and eighth graders held steady.

LOS ANGELES — Eighth-graders in nearly every state across the nation and fourth-graders in a large majority of states, including California, saw significant drops in average math scores since the pandemic, reflecting "heartbreaking" academic setbacks for students across wide swaths of the country, according to the results of the "nation's…

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The test measures reading and math proficiency for fourth- and eighth-graders. It's administered every two years, but the pandemic delayed the 2021 report until now.