New data from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that student attendance dipped during COVID-19 and that student attendance rates haven't recovered to pre-pandemic levels.

There were only declines or stagnant scores for the nation’s 9-year-olds,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. And the pandemic's disruptions to ...

Such has been the case with the COVID-19 pandemic. On the one hand, science saved lives. Less than a year after the virus was identified, the United States had created and tested vaccines.

2. More states saw declining graduation rates for students with disabilities during COVID-19. An EdWeek Research Center analysis of state data found 31 states saw drops in overall graduation rates ...

"In 2022, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducted a special administration of the NAEP long-term trend (LTT) reading and mathematics assessments for age 9 students to examine ...

Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment showing the devastating effect of the Covid-19 pandemic ...

Fourth- and eighth-graders fell behind in reading and had the largest ever decline in math, according to a national educational assessment showing the devastating effect of the Covid-19 pandemic ...

The national sample of 13-year-olds included 8,700 students from 460 schools in each subject, according to the NCES, part of the Education Department. More than 80 percent of the schools tested in ...

“COVID-19 shocked American education and stunted the academic growth” of students, said Peggy G. Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics.

Math and reading scores have still not recovered from COVID-19 pandemic-era school closures, according to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress mathematics and reading scores ...

National test results released on Thursday showed in stark terms the pandemic’s devastating effects on American schoolchildren, with the performance of 9-year-olds in math and reading dropping ...

The national emergency declaration for the COVID-19 pandemic is still in effect, which means the president and his administration may continue to take executive actions to help student loan borrowers.