No Signs of Academic Recovery for 13-Year-Olds After School Lockdowns

America’s 13-year-olds are showing no signs of academic recovery from school lockdowns, as new federal data report math and reading scores at the lowest levels in decades.

According to new National Assessment of Educational Progress data published Wednesday, the math scores of the young teenagers, who are mostly in eighth grade, dropped nine points between the 2019-2020 and 2022-2023 school years, which a NAEP press release called “the largest declines ever recorded.”

Reading scores declined by four points over the same period, with the lowest-performing students scoring lower than they did in 1971 when the data first started being collected.

“The ‘green shoots’ of academic recovery that we had hoped to see have not materialized, as we continue to see worrisome signs about student achievement and well-being more than two years after most students returned for in-person learning,” Peggy G. Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics which administers the NAEP testing, said in a press release. “There are signs of risk for a generation of learners in the data we are releasing today and have released over the past year.” (Read more from “No Signs of Academic Recovery for 13-Year-Olds After School Lockdowns” HERE)

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