"We must be honest about how the pandemic learning loss is still impacting our students."
The declines in reading and math preceded COVID (and then, yes, school closures accelerated them.) Your framing suggests all was well until COVID, but this unhelpfully politicizes the declines and gives the other factors contributing to those declines a free pass.
Thanks for your comment. If you look at the graph of NAEP scores, the biggest drop is with the pandemic. And this is what motivated NYSED to lower the state test scores two years ago - as they said in their own meeting about "the new normal".
"We must be honest about how the pandemic learning loss is still impacting our students."
The declines in reading and math preceded COVID (and then, yes, school closures accelerated them.) Your framing suggests all was well until COVID, but this unhelpfully politicizes the declines and gives the other factors contributing to those declines a free pass.
Thanks for your comment. If you look at the graph of NAEP scores, the biggest drop is with the pandemic. And this is what motivated NYSED to lower the state test scores two years ago - as they said in their own meeting about "the new normal".