Today, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released the results of a global study on student learning since the COVID-19 pandemic and the results were, not to put too fine a point on it, abysmal. Both literacy and math scores showed ‘an unprecedented fall’ in student performance, according to OECD.
Terrible new exam results reveal the pandemic’s toll on schooling.
British and American pupils mostly scored above the average for rich countries, but marks in many places were far worse than expected https://t.co/xW28TIqb5j 👇
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) December 5, 2023
While the United States did not score too horribly in the literacy department, about on par with 2018 test results, math scores dropped an alarming 13 points from 2018 and were 15 points below the global average.
These results gave Randi Weingarten, head of America’s largest teachers’ union, the perfect opportunity to publicly accept responsibility for her efforts to close schools and keep them closed during the pandemic, and pledge to correct her actions going forward for the benefit of America’s schoolchildren.
LOL. Just kidding. She didn’t do any of that.
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