Test results show that fourth graders have lost more ground in reading and math than they had in decades. An education-policy researcher discusses what this reveals about the preëxisting gaps in our system, and whether it’s time to reimagine schooling.
outcomes in the United States was released, and the results were bleak. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (. The scale was shocking: in both areas, students lost more ground than they had in decades. The declines differed by racial groups, with Black students showing, on average, worse losses; across racial groups, students who were already struggling in school showed the steepest declines.
The district and state data is sometimes used to figure out what to do in terms of policy, where to focus our efforts. And because of its use in practice, people might respond to it in ways that make it less accurate.If I’m held accountable for how my students do, and my salary is dependent on it, or other resources that I get are dependent on it, I might be overly focussed on increasing those test scores. But none of that happens with thetest. It’s not used to evaluate anyone.
To go back to the racial gaps, you seemed to be saying that Black and Hispanic students on average suffered more than white students from the pandemic, but, at the same time, it’s the lowest-performing students in every racial group who showed a much bigger drop than the group itself did. It’s new on many dimensions, not just in education. What’s most concerning, but which also gives us an opportunity to actually do something, is that many of the differences that we see are just highlighting and increasing gaps that were already in our system prior to the pandemic. While we’ve never seen a drop this big, we have seen differences in test scores that are this large.
A lot of districts right now are trying to individualize learning in that way. If we can do that, not only in response to the pandemic but in response to students’ needs more broadly, we can emerge with a better school system than we had before. It’s just going to take a lot of work.
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