The national report card is promoting action because the students of the national reading and mathematics shows could not recover from the pandemic.
The national evaluation (NAEP) data released on Wednesday has shown that the reading score has decreased further in 2022 in 2022, but the mathematics score is only fourth grade. Although only progress is shown, it is not enough to catch up before pandemic. Numbers.
“These results are tragic and tragic,” said Alicia Levi, president and CEO of reading. “You need to take action […] We are calling for all sector leaders, the leaders of all sectors of all sectors, to participate in this battle. “
According to experts, the number of investments, the preparation of educators in a new way to teach the subjects, and acknowledging that students have achieved their grades without solving the basics.
Reading gained the biggest hit, and I was able to read the lowest ratio in the NAEP basic line on the ratio of evaluation.
The news is even worse for students with the lowest performance: 10 studentsthh And 25thh Since the first reading evaluation of Naep in 1992, both 4th and 8th graders have been the worst score.
Brandon Cardette Hernandez, President of Mrs. Wordsmith, a group to improve the results of children's literacy, calls it an “emergency.”
“I know that 70 % of the imprisoned people are reading at the 4th grade level. We are deeply linked to our economic opportunity and our health results. I know that, especially from the $ 190 billion of Essel Fund, it is a difficult day to hear that we have not progressed and actually lost their status with the ripeness of the whole country. Cardette Hernandez said.
In recent years, many school districts and states have demanded that educators can switch reading methods in a method called “reading science.”
Previously, these educators used a “balanced literacy” method. This focused on teaching students how to read using text clues and contexts. Instead, reading science focuses on making students understand phonics when learning to read.
According to experts, it is not yet possible to decide whether NAEP's flag score is a method prosecution.
New York, which holds the largest public school district in Japan, switched to reading science in 2023. Before the student was evaluated by NAEP, one grade was given to the concept.
“I hope that trickles from the state -level policy initiative are implemented, and we will immediately expect to actually establish some of the developments of students in a faster development method,” NWEA, an educational research group. Advancing Center for school and student.
“In education, we are often too reagested, and we want to pull back before there is a complete evidence of policy or initiative,” Lewis added.
Mathematics had a little luck, but the score rarely caused the celebration.
The fourth grader increased by two in mathematics, but when the pandemic began, it was not possible to overcome the 5 points decreased by the subject. The eighth grader did not change the math score.
Mathematics has been supported by additional federal dollars to tutors and after school programs, and critics have not been able to read the type of energy.
“We are not investing,” Levi said. “Today, you can see that STEM has such a public and private sector investment. Is left behind.
Experts say that reading is also more difficult to help students follow how the students are delayed and how they are trained for this problem.
“I know that mathematics is probably made with a much easier -to -spacious skill to target intervention,” Lewis said. “For example, we know that students are struggling with long divisions, and we know a specific step to intervene and catch up with that specific skill set. In contrast, reading is cumulative.”
According to the numbers announced last month, adult literacy has also decreased.
The National Education Statistics Center, part of the Ministry of Education, announced in December that 28 % of US adults are ranked at the lowest level of literacy compared to 19 % in 2017.
As the students progress through their grades, reading goes to the subject they are assumed from the subject they are taught. After the third grade, they are expected to expand their knowledge through reading in new subjects, and educators are not expected to teach how to read materials.
“I think the early elementary school students, the early elementary school teachers, are the effects of the fact that they are the most well prepared to teach those basic skills,” Luis said. “And there are students who lack these basic skills due to early elementary school results due to school confusion. They are ready to support those basic reading gaps. I am in a more advanced teacher classroom.
“I think there is a mismatch between the needs of the student and the preparation of the teacher's labor,” she added.
