Over the weekend, hundreds of top scientists and mathematicians released a statement to, as they wrote, “express our alarm over recent trends in K-12 mathematics education in the United States.” Citing the California Mathematics Framework as an example of such a reform that is intended to enhance equity and reduce disparities, the
Given the experience of the pandemic over the last year-and-a-half and the urgent need to confront the challenges it has brought, it can be easy to forget that the U.S.’s education system was experiencing challenges even before the pandemic. Data from the most recent Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)
In our last Emerging Issues newsletter, we took a look at the latest data on the learning loss that voters believe has occurred due to the disruptions caused by the pandemic. As we noted, voters clearly believe schools will be facing some level of unfinished learning when students return to
In the flurry of headlines that were coming out right before the election, one that might have been missed was the release of the new math and reading achievement data for 12th grade on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Specifically, this week we will analyze the data by