“More kids are reading at a proficient level at the NES ... who met or exceeded projected growth targets calculated by the ...

Today’s eighth grade students are a full year behind the eighth graders of 2019 when it comes to proficiency in math and ...

Overall, science achievement didn’t take as great a hit during the pandemic as reading and math achievement on NWEA’s measures. Previous research from the organization has found that ...

Imagine waking up for the first day of middle school and discovering you’ve already missed class — for more than half the ...

The agonizingly slow trajectory of Oregon students’ academic recovery from pandemic disruptions continued for a third ...

In 2023-24, the gap between pre- and post-Covid test score averages widened by an average of 36 percent in reading and 18 percent in math, according to the NWEA report. When it comes to education ...

The first large-scale, in-depth analysis shows uneven post-pandemic recovery in science achievement across the elementary and ...

The NWEA report, meanwhile, analyzed math and reading test scores for 7.7 million grades 3 to 8 students in about 22,400 public schools during the 2023-2024 school year. Researchers compared that ...

Using MAP® Growth™ assessment results for grades three to eight, NWEA researchers found a mixed story of academic recovery. Similar to earlier research into math and reading, science ...

erasing two decades of progress in reading and math. And in the two years following the NAEP results, academic recovery has stalled with students in most grades losing academic ground compared to ...

Learn more about it. Reading, whether it be an “old fashioned” book or a Kindle, and prolonged screen time can cause eye strain and, sometimes, headaches. “As we get older,” says Jovi ...

compared to about 90 minutes a day on reading. “If science is taught at all in elementary school, it’s in the fourth and fifth grades,” said Susan Kowalski, an NWEA researcher, in comment to ...