Since kindergarten, high school students have shown up to school every day ready to learn, and we have failed them (“New Graduates’ ACT Scores Hit a 30-Year Low,” Oct. 12, 2022). According to 2022 ACT scores, only 41 percent of students are college-ready in reading. ACT CEO Janet Goodwin is correct when she says test performance is evidence of “longtime systemic failures.”
Like a majority of states, Michigan saw student test scores plummet for fourth- and eighth-graders in reading and math between 2019 and 2022, according to national test results released on Monday.
“Heart-wrenching.” “Catastrophic.” “Scary as all get-out.”
Those were the words experts used on Monday as they weighed in on the severity of the first post-pandemic results of the main Nation’s Report Card...
The results, from what is known as the nation’s report card, offer the most definitive picture yet of the pandemic’s devastating impact on students.
In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
Across our great state, students who struggle to read are showing up to school each and every day — the child who suddenly excuses himself when called upon to read aloud, and another whose antics divert from the shame she won't let anyone see.
If there is any silver lining, it is that the students who have recently fallen behind are shining a light on those who have been reading below grade level for decades. We refer to these students as falling into the “literacy gap. In 47 states, only 40 percent of eighth graders are reading proficiently, according to the NAEP (nationsreportcard.gov). Fortunately, there is a solution.
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Reading can change lives. “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. … When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror,” says Rudine Sims Bishop, a former professor at Ohio State University.
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Roughly 5,650 Michigan students received reading scores low enough that they could be required to repeat third grade, according to a new report from Michigan State University’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative (EPIC), the strategic research partner of the Department of Education and local school districts in Michigan.
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