The test also revealed a troubling increase in student absenteeism.
, the latest test casts light on the persistence of those setbacks, dimming hopes of swift academic recovery.
“The ‘green shoots’ of academic recovery that we had hoped to see have not materialized,” Carr said in a statement. Similar setbacks were reported last year when NAEP released broader results showing the pandemic’s impact on America’s fourth- and eighth-grade students. Especially alarming to officials were outsize decreases among the lowest-performing students. Students at all achievement levels saw decreases, but while stronger students saw slides of 6 to 8 points, lower performing students saw decreases of 12 to 14 points, the results show.
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