Louisiana was the only state to surpass pre-pandemic reading levels in the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Absenteeism, ineffective reading curriculums, and lack of support for teachers contribute to the dismal scores.
Today’s student are America’s future workers, but new data show their reading skills have fallen, and math skills aren’t improving. This data should concern employers.
While the highest-performing students started to regain lost ground, lower-performing students fell further behind.