Some countries show improvements in math post-pandemic. Not the United States.
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U.S. math scores dropped sharply in 2023 on a major international assessment, even as fourth graders posted higher scores in more than a dozen countries.

U.S. fourth graders saw their math scores drop steeply between 2019 and 2023 on a key international test even as more than a dozen other countries saw their scores improve. Scores dropped even more steeply for American eighth graders, a grade where only three countries saw increases.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Since then, other research into post-pandemic academic performance has found widening gaps across race and income, even as many middle and higher income students are doing well.

    Private school vouchers and destroying the Department of Education, and a healthy dose of white nationalist politics will surely address all this