New NAEP results are releasing today – The first overview looks pretty disappointing

New NAEP results for Grades 4 and 8 in math and reading are releasing today, and it looks like some of the details have yet to be loaded into the web. But an overview is already posted, and this summarizes the overall situation across the nation pretty succinctly.

As you can see, with the lone exception of reading for the very highest performing group of students, those who score at the 90th percentile, there has been a statistically significant decrease in scores in every other case shown.

COVID-19 has hurt our children.

I hope that the expanded NAEP results will be loaded into the web shortly and the NAEP Data Explorer won’t be overloaded with queries so we can dig into details for Kentucky, but this starting view isn’t good.

Source of the Table: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/#