US faces ‘reading recession’ as school test scores continue to decline Between 2022 and 2025, only five states and the District of Columbia had meaningful growth in reading scores The Independent UK · May 13
‘These results are sobering’: US high school seniors’ reading and math scores plummet Educators worry about absenteeism and smartphones as NAEP report shows scores at lowest levels in two decades The Guardian - US · Sep 20, 2025
LOCALIZE IT: Student test score data fills in picture on learning loss EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: The Independent UK · May 12, 2023
LOCALIZE IT: Exclusive data on district-level test scores EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2022
Massive learning setbacks show COVID's sweeping toll on kids The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered classrooms set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas affected the most, according to a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2022
High-stakes year begins for kids still learning to read Mounting evidence from around the country shows that students who spent more time learning remotely during the 2020-2021 school year, many of them Black and Latino, lost about half of an academic year of learning The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2022
Schools look to get back on track after 2 terrible years It's been a brutal two years. Axios · Aug 1, 2022
6 things we've learned about how the pandemic disrupted learning As a third pandemic school year draws to a close, new research offers the clearest accounting yet of the pandemic's academic toll. WEKU · Jun 22, 2022