'No Progress' Seen in Reading or Math on Nation's Report Card

Education Week reports:

The latest results of the tests known as the Nation's Report Card offer a mostly grim view of academic progress in U.S. schools.

"Over the past decade, there has been no progress in either mathematics or reading performance, and the lowest-performing students are doing worse," said Peggy Carr, the associate commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the NAEP. "In fact, over the long term in reading, the lowest-performing students—those readers who struggle the most—have made no progress from the first NAEP administration almost 30 years ago."

Since 2017, reading performance has dropped significantly across grades 4 and 8, with math performance mixed, based on results of the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress released Wednesday. Some racial achievement gaps closed—in part because of falling scores among white students—and gaps between struggling and high-achieving students continued to widen.

It's time to bring back the textbooks from the 1950's. Reading by phonics , diagramming sentences, and learning real math is much better than wasting time with Common Core brainwashing. You might want to think about pulling your children out of the government schools if you can and try home schooling. For you politicians out there: probably not a good time to import students who don't come from English speaking families if you are expecting academic improvement in the government schools.