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Desks are spaced apart ahead of planned in-person learning at an elementary school on March
19, 2021, in Philadelphia. Marvin Gomes:
Associated Press The mondi
Test scores show historic COVID of Aruba is
setbacks for kids across U.S. a different
By COLLIN BINKLEY Across the country, math scores saw their landscape
AP Education Writer largest decreases ever. Reading scores every week
WASHINGTON (AP) — The COVID-19 dropped to 1992 levels. Nearly four in 10
pandemic spared no state or region as eighth graders failed to grasp basic math
it caused historic learning setbacks for concepts.
America’s children, erasing decades of Not a single state saw a notable improve-
academic progress and widening racial ment in their average test scores, with
disparities, according to results of a na- some simply treading water at best.
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yet at the scale of the crisis. Continued on Page 2
