[ti:Math, Reading Test Scores in US Continue to Drop after Pandemic]
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[00:00.04]The U.S. Department of Education expressed concern
[00:04.12]about long-term learning loss among teenagers
[00:08.40]who missed class time during the COVID-19 pandemic when schools closed.
[00:15.76]The department released the scores from a national math and reading test,
[00:21.68]given to 13-year-olds, on June 21.
[00:27.00]Eight thousand seven hundred students took the test
[00:31.72]in both math and reading in late 2022.
[00:36.48]The results showed a drop of nine points in math
[00:41.96]and four points in reading compared to 2020,
[00:47.76]the last year the test was administered.
[00:51.44]The department's information shows that those are the largest point
[00:56.04]decreases between tests recorded since 1973.
[01:02.44]The test asks students to read short passages
[01:06.96]and identify the main idea or some facts.
[01:11.32]In math, students need to do simple multiplication and geometry.
[01:18.04]Peggy G. Carr is the commissioner
[01:21.60]of the National Center for Education Statistics,
[01:25.32]part of the Department of Education.
[01:30.40]In a news release, she said the scores show that there are still
[01:34.44]"worrisome signs about student achievement"
[01:38.00]two years after most returned to in-person school.
[01:43.96]Carr said she was hoping to see
[01:46.44]"green shoots of academic recovery," but did not.
[01:50.68]Green shoots is a term officials use to describe signs of improvement.
[01:58.08]The results of a similar test, given to younger students, came out in 2022.
[02:05.12]They also showed learning problems connected
[02:08.72]to missed class time for fourth and eighth graders.
[02:13.72]Education officials said test scores were falling
[02:18.60]in the 10 years before the pandemic.
[02:21.36]However, they were mostly higher than the lows of 20 to 30 years ago.
[02:29.96]The latest test scores show that American 13-year-old students
[02:36.12]are back to their lowest level in math since 1990
[02:41.56]and lowest reading level since 2004.
[02:45.52]An international reading test given to younger students in 2021
[02:51.92]suggested some learning loss.
[02:54.76]However, the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study
[03:00.52]showed that most students reached basic reading standards.
[03:06.24]The test results showed that, of the countries taking part,
[03:09.92]more than one-third of test-takers reached high standards on average.
[03:16.52]The test, which is administered every five years,
[03:20.44]was given in 57 countries, mainly in Europe and the Middle East.
[03:25.76]There was a big difference in results between some countries.
[03:30.28]In the U.S., officials say time away from school during the pandemic
[03:36.12]continues to affect students who were already having problems.
[03:40.76]Those students scored 12 to 14 points lower
[03:45.12]than others in their group in 2020.
[03:48.72]Stronger students also saw lower scores,
[03:52.72]but their scores dropped only six to eight points.
[03:58.32]Minority students struggled the most.
[04:01.88]The lowest scores came from American Indians,
[04:05.64]whose scores dropped by 20 points.
[04:09.52]Black students' scores were lower by 13 points.
[04:13.60]White students saw losses of six points
[04:18.00]and Asian students remained almost the same.
[04:21.92]The scores of all groups decreased.
[04:26.56]Denise Forte is president
[04:29.20]of a nonprofit group, the Education Trust, based in Washington, D.C.
[04:35.12]She said the test shows
[04:37.64]the deep effect of the pandemic on Black, Latino and poor students.
[04:43.32]She said all students want to do well, attend college, and get a job.
[04:48.80]"But they can't if they continue to lose ground," she said.
[04:53.72]The learning problems of the pandemic continue in the U.S.
[04:58.60]although the federal government
[05:01.04]has spent billions of dollars to help students catch up.
[05:05.28]Schools received money to offer extra help,
[05:08.96]hold classes in the summer and start other programs.
[05:13.16]But Carr said the nation's 13-year-olds,
[05:16.52]who were just 10 when the pandemic started, are still having trouble.
[05:21.84]"We need to keep at it," she said. "It is a long road ahead of us."
[05:26.60]Miguel Cardona is the U.S. Secretary of Education.
[05:31.20]He said the national test shows what the government had feared ...
[05:36.00]that it would take "years of investment to reverse the damage."
[05:41.92]But he said "several states" are making progress
[05:45.08]on their own reading and math tests
[05:47.84]and are returning to levels that existed before the pandemic.
[05:52.16]I'm Dan Friedell. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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