by Brandon Poulter
U.S. students are lagging behind other industrialized students in math in a global assessment released Tuesday, according to Axios.
Students in the U.S. saw a 13-point fall in their 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) score compared to their 2018 results, according to Axios. The score was “among the lowest ever measured by PISA in mathematics” and comes as U.S. students are suffering learning loss following the pandemic.
Almost 70% of students in the U.S. attended schools that experienced chronic absenteeism during the 2021-2022 school year. K-12 reading scores took their biggest drop ever and math scores declined for the first time in 2022.
Students suffering from chronic absenteeism are suffering the worst outcomes.
U.S. students scored a single point below their 2018 reading score and 3 points lower than their 2018 science score, though both were higher than their scores in 2012, according to Axios.
ISA examines the proficiency of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science worldwide, according to Axios.
This is the first PISA to take place since the pandemic and compares the exam results of almost 700,000 students from 81 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member states, according to Axios. PISA is run by the OECD and first administered in 2000 and is conducted every three years.
Of the countries measured, 31 maintained or improved their 2018 math scores, according to Axios. Countries with shorter school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic scored higher.
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Brandon Poulter is a reporter at Daily Caller News Foundation.
2+2=5 … Just like it did in the movie 1984.
you say pandemic, I say democrats running public schools.
Multiple teachers sounded the warning of the then impending fall in academia. Absenteeism and distant or online learning would not work. COVID19 reactions imposed by politicos, mostly for their personal gain, severely impacted student learning. Those retarded in learning undercut their ability in their next school year. For example, those bumped from the classroom in the fourth grade were not ready for the fifth grade let alone the sixth grade. School systems with the most marked decline were in liberal states with California leading the pack. Not only are politicos to blame, so too are the teacher’s union who should have been advocating not only for the teacher but the student, the profession and the institution.