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‘These results are sobering’: US high-school seniors’ reading and math scores plummet (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/news@lemmy.world

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The average reading and math scores of American high school seniors fell to their lowest levels in two decades in 2024, according to new national data released last week.

The results, from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), found that, on average, reading scores for 12th graders were 10 points lower in 2024 than they were in 1992, when the test was first administered, and that math scores fell to their lowest levels since 2005, when the math assessment began.

The test, administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), which is part of the US Department of Education, assessed roughly 19,300 12th-graders in math, 24,300 in reading and 23,000 eighth-graders in science between January and March of last year.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 47 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hey, guess what was going on four years ago?

covid
the conclusion of 4 years of crippling mismanagement of the US educational system by the first stint orangeboi had in office

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And LLMs hitting the scene!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

lol fuck, you’re right

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And the worse mismanagement now that Cheeto boy is in there for the second time, don't forgot that one, next results will be even worse

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

They didn’t know what they were doing the first time, most people didn’t actually think he’d win in the first place, so they didn’t have any plans ready to go.

This time, they began with a playbook that they started writing way back in 2019. And they published it on the open internet for everyone to fucking see. And now they’re following it to the fucking letter. You’re not allowed to be surprised by this.

Genuinely, if anyone is somehow even the slightest bit surprised by any of this: fuck you, from the bottom of my heart.

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

You thought Betsy DeVos was bad? Just you wait!