Thinking about math in terms of literacy, not levels Aug 2, 2016 7:23 PM EDT. By ... And the chief academic reason for this dropout rate is algebra in the ninth grade. HARI SREENIVASAN: ...

Nationwide, the average reading score on NAEP fell 3 points from 2019 to 2022, to 217 in grade 4 and 260 in grade 8. While not as large a drop as math, it represented a significant decline in ...

U.S. students at a plateau: At 4th and 8th grade, reading and math scores haven't budged The pattern of decline concentrated among the lowest-performing students – across multiple grade levels ...

For the last decade, math scores had held steady, with small fluctuations here and there. But this year, that stability was shattered. In eighth-grade math, the average score fell in all but one ...

In math, the positive performance trend was most evident among Black students — including fourth grade proficiency reaching 19%, up 3 percentage points from 2023.