Remember what we were dealing with during the last presidential election?
They unleashed COVID on us earlier in the year, closing down our schools and small businesses and we now have some data on how those drastic measures impacted the education of our children. Student test scores in US elementary schools have dropped to levels not seen in decades.
Math scores fell for the first time in the five-decade history of the study. The decline has essentially wiped out decades of progress in math and reading proficiency.
School closings during COVID weren’t the only cause of declines in test scores, there was also an increase in students seeking mental health services, absenteeism, school violence and disruption, cyberbullying, and nationwide teacher and staff shortages.
