Washington students doing worse in math and reading after pandemic years
Washington's fourth and eighth grade students rank 27th in the nation when it comes to reading and math proficiency, according to the 2022 National Assessment of Education Progress.
The report, from the National Center for Education Statistics, also shows that students in both grades are doing worse in math than they were before the pandemic, and eighth graders are doing worse in reading.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal says that, while students in other states, like Montana, had better test results, this was an inevitable side effect of the pandemic.
"Every state essentially saw similar reductions, within a certain statistical significance," Reykdal said. "I think the pandemic is all we can label it now and not particular strategies. I would point out we were above the national average before and we remain there, it's just everyone went down quite a bit."
Most states, except for Utah and some military-run schools, saw student proficiency scores in math and reading drop.
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Paige Browning
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Paige hosts midday newscasts and monitors news of significance to the Puget Sound region. She hopped over Washington’s mountains to join KUOW, after hosting news and reporting at Spokane Public Radio since 2011. She began her start in radio while a journalism student at University of Montana, by sharing stories with KUFM. Paige was raised in the mountains and rivers around Spokane. In her spare time she cheers on the Mariners in the summer, and hopes for snow in the winter.
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