Historic Negative Scholastic Impacts of Social Distancing

Typically, when the 'nation's report card' detects even a one- or two-point decline in test scores it's considered significant.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as the “nation’s report card,” tests fourth and eighth graders across the U.S. to measure student achievement

• The results are in from the 2022 NAEP Mathematics Assessment, which was last given in 2019, before the pandemic

• The results show a staggering decline in tes…