Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)

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Post by u1hcw9nx » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)
nationsreportcard.gov

Re: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)

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Post by u1hcw9nx » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 6:57 PM UTC

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) administered the NAEP long-term trend (LTT) reading and mathematics assessments to 13-year-old students from October to December of the 2022–23 school year. The average scores for 13-year-olds declined 4 points in reading and 9 points in mathematics compared to the previous assessment administered during the 2019–20 school year. Compared to a decade ago, the average scores declined 7 points in reading and 14 points in mathematics.

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Post by magicalist » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC

(2023)

comparing Fall 2019 to Fall 2022

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Post by nh23423fefe » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 7:24 PM UTC

magicalist wrote: post #3

(2023) comparing Fall 2019 to Fall 2022

instead of gpt did it, ill lazily say covid did it

Re: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)

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Post by biscuits1 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 7:35 PM UTC

I grepped for "covid" and "COVID-19" on all presented text. 1 result found.

". . . did you ever attend school from home or somewhere else outside of school because of the COVID-19 outbreak?"

Can someone else confirm?

Not enough investigation there. Of course, the trend was already going down, but the new slope is obvious.

Prediction in next three years will be same or greater - technology, ai, screentime.

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Post by bijowo1676 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 7:35 PM UTC

screen time and social media

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Post by godelski » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 7:47 PM UTC

The peak was in 2012

           2012  2020  2023
  Reading   263   260   256
  Math      285   280   271

So people are looking at Covid and that's probably not enough. The scores are closer to those of the 80's than those in the 90's and 00's

Re: Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)

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Post by tdb7893 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 7:48 PM UTC

I cannot wait for one of my uncles to post this about how kids these days can't do anything so I can point out that the scores were even lower in his age bracket.

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Post by hooo » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 7:48 PM UTC

bijowo1676 wrote: post #6

screen time and social media

Seriously. I'm surprised you got downvoted. The internet is so much more hostile to minds than it was when I was a kid.

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Post by SoftTalker » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 7:50 PM UTC

biscuits1 wrote: post #5

I grepped for "covid" and "COVID-19" on all presented text. 1 result found. ". . . did you ever attend school from home or somewhere else outside of school because of the COVID-19 outbreak?" Can someone else confirm? Not enough investigation there. Of course, the trend was already going down, but the new slope is obvious. Prediction in next three years will be same or greater - technology, ai, screentime.

Note the results are compiled from the 2022–23 school year, compared to the 2019–20 school year. So yeah, the big thing there is the lockdown for (depending on local policies) the year or two in between.