How Are U.S. Students Doing in Math? About as Well as Their Parents Did in 1995

The results are in — and they’re not great. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.International data on math and science released earlier this month gave the globe its first chance to compare progress since the pandemic. For the United States, it appears that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed more than 20 years of progress in math scores, based on results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said as much during a briefing with reporters. The average math score among both fourth and eighth graders in 2023 was statistically... [Read more...]