US high school students' reading, math scores hit new low
Nearly half of 12th graders scored below basic proficiency in math and reading, with only 22% meeting proficiency in math and 35% in reading, highlighting growing educational challenges.
- American eighth graders have recorded their lowest science scores since 2009, as indicated by the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress results released on Tuesday.
- Thirty-Eight percent of students scored below NAEP Basic, marking a five percentage point increase since 2019, the highest share since 2009.
- Education Secretary Linda McMahon stated that the results 'confirm a devastating trend' and suggest that federal spending has not improved education.
- The results show that gaps between high and low performing students have widened, with more scoring below the basic level.
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The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress are nothing short of catastrophic. They are an indictment of an education system that has been subject to decades of top-down “accountability” and consumed trillions of dollars—more and more each year—only to deliver worse results. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education released the 2024 NAEP scores for 12th grade math and reading and eighth-grade science. The results…
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Few things are more important than the education of our young people. That’s why, when the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) released the Nation’s Report Card earlier this week, I became concerned. Average scores among 8th and 12th grade students were lower across all three primary assessments — science, math, and reading. For example, only 22% of 12th graders were proficient at their level of mathematics and 35% were proficien…
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