{"id":134516,"date":"2025-01-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134516"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:49:38","slug":"bloomberg-us-students-reading-scores-drop-to-worst-in-more-than-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134516","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) US Students\u2019 Reading Scores Drop to Worst in More Than 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US fourth- and eighth-grade students are struggling with reading comprehension with last year\u2019s nationwide testing showing the worst results in over two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Average reading scores deteriorated among students who took the Congressionally-mandated assessment in 2024, according to results released Wednesday from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is a major concern,\u201d said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/0250509Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Center for Education Statistics<\/a>, which administers the test known as the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nation\u2019s Report Card<\/a>&nbsp;every two years. \u201cOur nation is facing complex challenges in reading.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-01-29\/us-students-reading-scores-drop-to-worst-in-more-than-20-years\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">US fourth- and eighth-grade students are struggling with reading comprehension with last year\u2019s nationwide testing showing the worst results in over two decades. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mHk2GPQyId\">https:\/\/t.co\/mHk2GPQyId<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Bloomberg Markets (@markets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markets\/status\/1884614005517422765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US fourth- and eighth-grade students are struggling with reading comprehension with last year\u2019s nationwide testing showing the worst results in over two decades. Average reading scores deteriorated among students who took the Congressionally-mandated assessment in 2024, according to results released<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=134516\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,209,92,101,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-americau-s-a","category-books","category-children","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134520,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134516\/revisions\/134520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}