U.S. students were still nearly half a grade level behind in both math and reading in the spring of 2024, compared with achievement levels before the pandemic. That’s according to the latest release of the Education Recovery Scorecard, a data-rich deep dive into student learning.
Today’s news arrives on the heels of The Nation’s Report Card, released at the end of January, which also found students still trying to make up for learning they missed during the pandemic.
But if that report card provided a grainy Polaroid of what’s happening in schools, the Education Recovery Scorecard offers a high-resolution digital photo, allowing researchers to zoom in to student learning at the district level in some 8,700 school districts.
The Scorecard is a joint venture between Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research and The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University.
Here are six quick takeaways from the new, third-annual Scorecard.
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Article URL : https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5291451/us-reading-math-scores-solutions