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  • Joined: August 30, 2022
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Pandemic: American students lose ground

The just-released NAEP report indicates that the U.S. response to the pandemic resulted in the performance of 9-year olds’ math abilities dropping to levels of two decades ago. The decline in reading was the worst in three decades. It affected the poorer-performing students worse, where “students in the bottom 10th percentile dropped by 12 points in math, four times the decrease of students in the 90th percentile.” These National Assessment of Educational Progress tests have been tracking student achievement in grades 4, 8, and 12 since 1970. Academic areas evaluated include mathematics, reading, writing, U.S. history, geography and other areas. This rapid and severe decline in student performance and knowledge during the two and a half years of pandemic schooling in America, much of it conducted online, will not be reflected in students’ grades. Grade inflation was already institutionalized across most states by policies that drove grade point averages (GPAs) up while scores on another common assessment, the ACT, continued to fall. The pandemic dramatically accelerated this grade inflation while ACT scores, and now the NAEP, show that learning has dramatically fallen. —Thus, higher grades for much less learned.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Listen to the lies they fabricate If you want to know what shenanigans Progressive democrats and their mouthpiece Joe Biden are up to listen to the lies they fabricate about others. They have become a reflection of their own disinformation.

Railers fall short of Hutch on gridiron

By Chad Frey Newton Kansan Newton checked off almost all the boxes of a “how to beat Hutchinson” checklist on Sept. 9 at Fischer Field.… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close

Kansas Prole:4-H, FFA save a family farm

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9-11 remembered at Santa Fe

Thursday students in Kirstyn Pract’s class at Santa Fe 5/6 Center spent several minutes watching a video that left them at a loss for words. They watched several minutes of news clips from the 9-11 attacks, recorded on that fateful day in 2001.

Newton tennis team second at invite

The Kansan Staff The Newton High School girls’ golf team entered two squads in the Newton Invitational Tuesday at the Ward Family Tennis Center on the Bethel College campus and the Phil Scott Tennis Courts on the NHS campus. Andover won the tournament with 57 points.

Does raising the minimum wage kill jobs?

California’s new fast food law is expected to lead to a higher minimum wage for the industry in the state – as high as US$22 in 2023, up from $15 as of September 2022. While backers say the law is necessary to ensure fair wages and treatment in California’s fast food industry, restaurant owners argue it will raise costs by $3 billion, resulting in higher prices and lost jobs.