Learning Recession

[sealybobo]

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years before COVID-19's arrival. That's according to the latest Education Scorecard, an annual deep-dive into student data from The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University and Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.

The new Scorecard, released Wednesday and in its fourth year, offers several revelations for families, educators and policymakers looking for clarity — and hope — at a time when public education has been blamed and battered for those persistent declines in student performance.

So it it bad teachers? Is it smart phones or social media that made our kids dumber? Some say when No Child Left Behind ended in 2015 teachers were no longer afraid to fail a student so grades started coming down because teachers were no longer afraid to have a failing student.

For nearly a quarter-century, from 1990 to 2013, math achievement among fourth- and eighth-graders "rose steadily," according to the Scorecard's analysis. So steadily that "the average fourth grader in 2013 could perform the same math skills as the average sixth grader could in 1990.

While D.C., Louisiana, Maryland and five other states did experience meaningful improvement between 2022 and 2025, most states continued to stagnate or, as in Florida, Arizona and Nebraska, further declined.

It's also worth noting, while schools are once again, on average, regaining ground in math and slowly turning the corner in reading, the declines that began around 2013 have been so steep and lasting that only one state, Louisiana, has returned to 2019 performance levels in both subjects.

No state has returned to 2013 levels

If you are a teacher how long have you been teaching?

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5812483/reading-math-scores-data

 

[LibertyWeeps]

Where the hell have you been?!!!

Public schools have been backsliding since the late 80s, when all the corrupt politicians started enforcing all their stupidity laws against schools in this country!!!!!

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years before COVID-19's arrival. That's according to the latest Education Scorecard, an annual deep-dive into student data from The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University and Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.

The new Scorecard, released Wednesday and in its fourth year, offers several revelations for families, educators and policymakers looking for clarity — and hope — at a time when public education has been blamed and battered for those persistent declines in student performance.

So it it bad teachers? Is it smart phones or social media that made our kids dumber? Some say when No Child Left Behind ended in 2015 teachers were no longer afraid to fail a student so grades started coming down because teachers were no longer afraid to have a failing student.

For nearly a quarter-century, from 1990 to 2013, math achievement among fourth- and eighth-graders "rose steadily," according to the Scorecard's analysis. So steadily that "the average fourth grader in 2013 could perform the same math skills as the average sixth grader could in 1990.

While D.C., Louisiana, Maryland and five other states did experience meaningful improvement between 2022 and 2025, most states continued to stagnate or, as in Florida, Arizona and Nebraska, further declined.

It's also worth noting, while schools are once again, on average, regaining ground in math and slowly turning the corner in reading, the declines that began around 2013 have been so steep and lasting that only one state, Louisiana, has returned to 2019 performance levels in both subjects.

No state has returned to 2013 levels

If you are a teacher how long have you been teaching?

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5812483/reading-math-scores-data

Don't Isolate Learning

Educationists treat students as impersonal objects. They don't bother to motivate them through children's positive natural instincts, such as practical value, explanations of common things, or enlightening entertainment.

For example, the geography of the local neighborhood should be taught first in that subject, followed by locating street names in the whole city. Arithmetic should include how to figure out earned-run averages and odds at poker.

Other natural process is to divide classes into teams and quiz frequently.

 

[sealybobo]

Don't Isolate Learning

Educationists treat students as impersonal objects. They don't bother to motivate them through children's positive natural instincts, such as practical value, explanations of common things, or enlightening entertainment.

For example, the geography of the local neighborhood should be taught first in that subject, followed by locating street names in the whole city. Arithmetic should include how to figure out earned-run averages and odds at poker.

Other natural process is to divide classes into teams and quiz frequently.

Great post. Yes, most teachers didn't inspire me in the least. They use the same lesson plan that their teachers used 20 years earlier. But then if they are using the same methods why are kids getting dumber? It started happening before Iphones and Covid. AI teachers will do much better.

 

[jacksonlamb]

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years before COVID-19's arrival. That's according to the latest Education Scorecard, an annual deep-dive into student data from The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University and Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.

The new Scorecard, released Wednesday and in its fourth year, offers several revelations for families, educators and policymakers looking for clarity — and hope — at a time when public education has been blamed and battered for those persistent declines in student performance.

So it it bad teachers? Is it smart phones or social media that made our kids dumber? Some say when No Child Left Behind ended in 2015 teachers were no longer afraid to fail a student so grades started coming down because teachers were no longer afraid to have a failing student.

For nearly a quarter-century, from 1990 to 2013, math achievement among fourth- and eighth-graders "rose steadily," according to the Scorecard's analysis. So steadily that "the average fourth grader in 2013 could perform the same math skills as the average sixth grader could in 1990.

While D.C., Louisiana, Maryland and five other states did experience meaningful improvement between 2022 and 2025, most states continued to stagnate or, as in Florida, Arizona and Nebraska, further declined.

It's also worth noting, while schools are once again, on average, regaining ground in math and slowly turning the corner in reading, the declines that began around 2013 have been so steep and lasting that only one state, Louisiana, has returned to 2019 performance levels in both subjects.

No state has returned to 2013 levels

If you are a teacher how long have you been teaching?

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5812483/reading-math-scores-data

It's the GOP fault. It costs money to teach and learn well.

 

[sealybobo]

It's the GOP fault. It costs money to teach and learn well.

The other day I heard they want to start paying pre K teachers more money. What they do is important and we pay them minimum wage. They can make more working at a fast food place and their job is hard.

 

[Meathead]

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years before COVID-19's arrival. That's according to the latest Education Scorecard, an annual deep-dive into student data from The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University and Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.

The new Scorecard, released Wednesday and in its fourth year, offers several revelations for families, educators and policymakers looking for clarity — and hope — at a time when public education has been blamed and battered for those persistent declines in student performance.

So it it bad teachers? Is it smart phones or social media that made our kids dumber? Some say when No Child Left Behind ended in 2015 teachers were no longer afraid to fail a student so grades started coming down because teachers were no longer afraid to have a failing student.

For nearly a quarter-century, from 1990 to 2013, math achievement among fourth- and eighth-graders "rose steadily," according to the Scorecard's analysis. So steadily that "the average fourth grader in 2013 could perform the same math skills as the average sixth grader could in 1990.

While D.C., Louisiana, Maryland and five other states did experience meaningful improvement between 2022 and 2025, most states continued to stagnate or, as in Florida, Arizona and Nebraska, further declined.

It's also worth noting, while schools are once again, on average, regaining ground in math and slowly turning the corner in reading, the declines that began around 2013 have been so steep and lasting that only one state, Louisiana, has returned to 2019 performance levels in both subjects.

No state has returned to 2013 levels

If you are a teacher how long have you been teaching?

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5812483/reading-math-scores-data

It's "learing", you're uneducated!

 

[Cassandro]

It's the GOP fault. It costs money to teach and learn well.

The amount of money spent on education is inversely related to student achievement.

 

[luiza]

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years before COVID-19's arrival.

Which is why Deep State families send their children to trusted schools and places of good education .

What loving and responsible parent with sóme funds wants their kids to mix with Munchers and be conditioned to Muncher controls ?

 

[jacksonlamb]

The amount of money spent on education is inversely related to student achievement.

How stupid.

 

[sealybobo]

Which is why Deep State families send their children to trusted schools and places of good education .

What loving and responsible parent with sóme funds wants their kids to mix with Munchers and be conditioned to Muncher controls ?

It's also why deep state families have been attacking higher education. In the future, only deep state children get to go to college. They don't want blue collar maga people asking for affordable college or healthcare.

Did you hear Dr. Oz say we are under babied? 1 in 3 Americans is under babied? Maybe that's because we are under paid.

 

[luiza]

It's also why deep state families have been attacking higher education. In the future, only deep state children get to go to college. They don't want blue collar maga people asking for affordable college or healthcare.

Did you hear Dr. Oz say we are under babied? 1 in 3 Americans is under babied? Maybe that's because we are under paid.

Exactly .
If you were one of the controlling Deep State families you would deeply resent Munchers crawling and guzzling all over the planet and contributing next to nothing .
But in fairness , the Elite really should search for the kindest ways possible to near exterminate them .

As in Nature where parents kill the runts of the offspring .
Perhaps a PR campaugn
Runts are C---ts.

 

[LibertyWeeps]

The amount of money spent on education is inversely related to student achievement.

Unfortunately, that is true.

Public schools were better ran, better staffed, and better at educating when they were under the states authority.........not the governments.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Great post. Yes, most teachers didn't inspire me in the least. They use the same lesson plan that their teachers used 20 years earlier. But then if they are using the same methods why are kids getting dumber? It started happening before Iphones and Covid. AI teachers will do much better.

School Is a Tool Factory

We were studying a new process in algebra when one of the students asked, "What is the practical value of this?" He didn't mean how he could use it in daily life or on a job, just how it was useful within mathematics.

Angered by the phrase itself, the teacher threw a fit. In other words, the purpose of the plutocratic parasites' "education" is to get the students use to being cooped up doing boring and personally irrelevant jobs without any fulfilling sense of achievement except getting a paycheck when they finally get rewarded for working.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The amount of money spent on education is inversely related to student achievement.

Earn While You Learn

None of it is given to the students is why. Studying without reward sets them up for taking less pay when they finally do get paid for working.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Which is why Deep State families send their children to trusted schools and places of good education .

What loving and responsible parent with sóme funds wants their kids to mix with Munchers and be conditioned to Muncher controls ?

Daddy Buying Dummy a Job

Praising unearned privileges puts you in the Marie Antoinette sorority. Don't let it go to your head, because your head won't be there for long. We are approaching the greatest amount of unearned inherited wealth in history. Facts like that usually precede an unexpected rebellion.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Exactly .
If you were one of the controlling Deep State families you would deeply resent Munchers crawling and guzzling all over the planet and contributing next to nothing .
But in fairness , the Elite really should search for the kindest ways possible to near exterminate them .

As in Nature where parents kill the runts of the offspring .
Perhaps a PR campaugn
Runts are C---ts.

Familyism Is Even More Primitive Than Tribalism

The Survival of the Fatherest is that toxic Social Darwinism which sprouted up in England and led to its long slide downhill.

 

[sealybobo]

Exactly .
If you were one of the controlling Deep State families you would deeply resent Munchers crawling and guzzling all over the planet and contributing next to nothing .
But in fairness , the Elite really should search for the kindest ways possible to near exterminate them .

As in Nature where parents kill the runts of the offspring .
Perhaps a PR campaugn
Runts are C---ts.

Deep state? Who's in the deep state? Trump is in charge of the deep state now dude. He used to be a measly millionaire in 2015 but duped America and now he's got 10 billion dollars. Compare that to the Clinton's 120 million. Or Obama's 70 million. Remember, you think they are deep state globalists. Not Trump? Trump with 500 LLC's in how many countries?

Correll thinks Trump wants to only buy and sell to Americans. While he's over in China trying to get us all that business he lost us. I told you idiots Americans won't buy enough from us to make up for all the business he's going to cost us. Trump has ruined our alliances. Exactly what China wants. They'll make friends with the people Trump is making enemies with.

Trump's going to get us out of NATO? He backed out of the Climate agreement? America doesn't do Battery cars? Okay dummies. China will be happy to make new alliances. Something we had. Something we are losing because of Republican idiots in charge.

 

[Unkotare]

The Sage of Main Street

Don't Isolate Learning

Educationists treat students as impersonal objects. They don't bother to motivate them through children's positive natural instincts, such as practical value, explanations of common things, or enlightening entertainment.

For example, the geography of the local neighborhood should be taught first in that subject, followed by locating street names in the whole city. Arithmetic should include how to figure out earned-run averages and odds at poker.

Other natural process is to divide classes into teams and quiz frequently.

You have no idea what talking about, of course.

 

[sealybobo]

The Sage of Main Street

You have no idea what talking about, of course.