Extra: America Is Losing The Battle Against "Learning Loss"

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🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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American students are still behind, but there is some hope. That’s according to the latest National Assessment of Education Progress Report Card, which tracks the performance of fourth and eighth graders every two years. While there have been some areas of improvement, math and reading scores are still trending lower than before the pandemic. The Department of Education says the results are "heartbreaking," and students who are already behind won't be able to catch up. Education researcher at the American Institute for Research and the University of Washington, Dr. Da Goldhaber, joined host Lisa Brady on the FOX News Rundown this past week to discuss some of the report’s "bright spots," but why so many American students continue to struggle and why it will be hard for them to recover fro pandemic learning loss. Goldhaber detailed actions that can be taken locally and by the new administration to improve test scores. He also argued that recruiting and retaining quality teachers is a key part of the solution. We often must cut interviews short during the week, but we thought you might like to hear the full interview. Today on Fox News Rundown Extra, we will share our entire interview with Dr. Dan Goldhaber, helping you better understand America’s education crisis and how to remedy it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.5	And Lisa Brady.
0:38.0	President Trump has made clear he wants the U.S. education system to change.
0:42.6	How that might look remains to be seen, but a recent assessment of where things stand for some students, known as the nation's report card, offered disappointing results.
0:51.0	And what the U.S. Education Department calls a heartbreaking reality
0:54.7	that most students did not recover from pandemic-related learning loss and students who were most
1:00.5	behind have fallen further behind. Fourth graders and eighth graders take the National Assessment
1:05.7	of Educational Progress or NAEP every two years. The new results find average reading in math scores
1:11.5	lower than pre-pandemic levels, with less than 40% of fourth graders and under 30% of
1:17.2	eighth graders at or above proficiency in math, and only about 30% in both grades at or
1:22.9	above proficiency in reading, despite billions of dollars in pandemic relief aimed at helping schools and
1:28.5	students recover. We spoke with Dan Goldhaver, an education researcher at the American Institutes
1:34.2	for Research and the University of Washington, about the results, what's worked and hasn't worked
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