Virginia ranks 51st in the U.S. — behind all other states and Washington, D.C. — in math recovery from 2019 to 2024 for its performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, an assessment known as “The Nation’s Report Card.”
Average student achievement in math for Virginia’s students remains almost a full grade level below 2019 levels in math, according to researchers at Harvard and Stanford universities who have shared data that translates changes in test scores to “grade-level equivalents,” in an attempt to add context to what those test score dips mean.
Virginia experienced some of the nation’s biggest COVID-era drops in reading and math scores from 2019-2022, so it has more academic ground to recover than other states.
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