Experts have been warning for some time that the pandemic was a tremendous disruption for schoolchildren, but new national test scores are underlining just how bad things are: very.
The average math scores for 13-year-olds showed the largest drop in 50 years, now down to the same number in 1990. Reading scores tumbled as well, dropping to 2004 levels, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
