Embarrassing.
, Daniel McGrath, the group's associate commissioner, said the backwards progress is deeply concerning.
"These are some of the largest declines we have observed in a single assessment cycle in 50 years of the NAEP program," McGrath toldCarr said there are multiple factors likely contributing to the backslide, but that distance learning over the pandemic exacerbated challenges students already faced. "There’s been much speculation about how shuttered schools and interrupted learning may have affected students’ opportunities to learn," Carr wrote in the statement. "Our own data reveal the pandemic’s toll on education in other ways, including increases in students seeking mental health services, absenteeism, school violence and disruption, cyberbullying, and nationwide teacher and staff shortages.
Carr says more in-depth reporting is coming later this year that will help further quantify and explain the learning gap. Hopefully, those same stats will come with solutions for students, too.
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