Student Math and Reading Scores Have Dropped Significantly Since 2019
https://reason.com/2022/10/24/student-math-and-reading-scores-have-dropped-significantly-since-2019/
Overall, "correlation with state-level Covid policies is much weaker than I'd have thought," tweeted Matthew Yglesias. But if you look at just 2021 data, he added, the correlation is stronger. Such results suggest "that Zoom School was bad but also that some states have been much more effective than others in bouncing back," he said.
State-level test results also suggest "variation in recovery," according to the Brown University economist Emily Oster.
As for the NAEP data, more in-person schooling was generally consistent with less decline in NAEP math scores, wrote Oster. ("Interesting outliers: California, Hawaii.") In reading scores, there was "no relationship; overall smaller losses, as in the state-level data," she tweeted.
More failures from our government schools.