13-year-olds see largest ever drop in
math scores; reading levels sink to 1975 average
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino, 6/21/2023 5:49:37 PM
Students aged 13 years old have had a never-before-seen decline in math skills as well as a notable downfall in reading, according to a brand new data assessment from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The Nation’s Report Card’s Long-Term Trend data found that students in 2023 tested in mathematics on par with the average score from 1990, the "largest declines ever recorded" in math, according to the NCES press release. Reading levels for 2023 were just a point above the average in 1971, and came out as the same average (256) scored in 1975.
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We must massively increase the size of the federal Dept. of Education. We must give massive subsidies to the public schools. We must give massive bonuses to the teachers' unions. That won't raise math scores - - but it will make a lot of communists rich.