The pandemic’s long-term impact on the education of American schoolchildren is, by definition, not going to be known for many years. In the short term, however, recent headlines have suggested the impact has been quite negative. News reports have highlighted the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, which showed that nine-year-olds’ average scores declined five points in reading and seven points in math from 2020 to 2022. …
One might expect that parents of school-aged children would have become much less satisfied with their own children’s education over the past two years. Many parents were affected by the discombobulation caused by school closures and the need to make alternative arrangements for kids’ learning. And now, there is evidence that nine-year-olds lost ground on reading and math.
But surprisingly, parents appear to be just as satisfied with the quality of their kids’ educations now as they were before the pandemic. CONTINUED
Frank Newport, Gallup
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