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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Coronavirus pandemic prompts national math and reading tests to be postponed until 2022
2020-11-27
(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

#3  Looking at the winners that show up in the Portland Catch and Release series, it's likely the testees in question will be dumber in 2022 than they are right now.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-11-27 09:09  

#2  So Virtual education manure is so bad, that if students were tested the collection of misfits called Democrats fear the general public would see the obvious failing results of this not so well thought out item.

Maybe they are too busy with the 2020 Election to handle rigging this outcome at the same time?



Posted by: NN2N1   2020-11-27 07:28  

#1  In Other News: In the early 1990s, the Department of the Army abandoned its Skill Qualification Test (SQT) program due primarily to maintenance, development, and administration costs.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-11-27 05:10  

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