Reading Scores Stall for Young Students While Math Shows Gains in 2024-25

Reading scores for young kids lag years after pandemic: Research

New research shows students who were not school age during the COVID-19 pandemic are struggling to catch up in reading despite avoiding the classroom disruptions older students experienced.  NWEA, a nonprofit education research group, released a report this week looking at current students in grades kindergarten through second, who were babies or in daycare during the pandemic.   Comparing spring 2017 to…

Young kids missed the pandemic’s school disruptions. Their reading scores are still behind.

When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today’s youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in their early school years, researchers are beginning to see how the pandemic years have shaped their education, even though many had yet to set foot in a classroom when it began.

Young kids missed the pandemic’s school disruptions. Their reading scores are still behind. - The Boston Globe

First and second graders continue to perform worse than their pre-pandemic counterparts on math and reading tests, according to a report published Tuesday by the education assessment and research group NWEA.

Young kids missed pandemic school disruptions, reading scores are still behind

Young students are still struggling to bounce back academically from the pandemic, even though many were babies at the time

Young kids missed the pandemic's school disruptions. Their reading scores are still behind

Young students are still struggling to bounce back academically from the pandemic, even though many were babies at the time.

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