When it comes to how American students are recovering from the pandemic, it’s a tale of two subjects.
States across the country have made some progress in math over the past two years, while in English language arts some states made gains while others fell further behind.
“In math, almost every state looks pretty similar. There was a large decline between 2019 and 2021. And then everybody is kind of crawling it back,” said Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University. “In ELA, it’s all over the map.”
