Only 1 in 10 students nationwide attends a school district that has returned to pre-pandemic achievement levels in reading and math, according to a new study released today by the Center on Reinventing Public Education.
In its fifth annual The State of the American Student report, CRPE’s analysis cites poor attendance rates, low test scores and a lack of consistent state-level instruction policies that are evidence-based and enforceable.
“Things have been getting worse for a long while now,” said CRPE director Robin Lake. “And things have been getting much worse for equal opportunity: Performance gaps in every state have been increasing.”
The effects are measurable, the report says, with estimated lifetime earning declines for students nearing 9% in the states hardest-hit by pandemic learning loss vs. 2% for students in the least-affected states. An average Mississippi eighth grader is nearly two and a half years ahead of an average West Virginia eighth grader on demographically adjusted national test scores.
Only in Louisiana have both math and reading scores exceeded their 2019 levels.
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