|
Coronavirus pandemic prompts national math and reading tests to be postponed until 2022
 (Reuters) - National math and reading tests used to track U.S. students’ knowledge in those subjects are being postponed until 2022 due to the coronavirus outbreak, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) said."Math is hard": Barbie The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as "the nation’s report card," previously had been planned to be held at the beginning of 2021 for hundreds of thousands of fourth and eighth graders in the United States. "I have determined that NCES cannot at this time conduct a national-level assessment in a manner with sufficient validity and reliability to meet the mandate of the law", NCES Commissioner James Woodworth said on Wednesday. "I was obviously concerned about sending outsiders into schools and possibly increasing the risk of COVID transmission", he said. The NAEP assessments are a key indicator of educational progress in the United States with trends going back decades. Posted by: Besoeker 2020-11-27 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=588493 |