The achievement gap in standardized testing is a particular concern for high-poverty schools, where achievement levels tend to be low and students are still struggling with the compounded traumas of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts said.
But it's far from the familiar achievement gap narrative: Scores for low-performing white students declined in more assessments compared with their Black and Hispanic peers, for example.
Yet math and reading scores for fourth-, eighth- and 12th-graders in the bottom 10th percentile significantly decreased in that period. Compared to scores from 2009, more students in 2019 were unable to perform at the"proficient" level, essentially indicating a lack of competence in the subject matter.
Roughly a third of low performers on the 2019 eighth-grade reading test are white, compared with about half of the country's public-school students. Among that sample of eighth-graders who performed poorly on the 2019 reading test, more than two in three were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
These students may have been held to higher standards in the classroom while benefitting from greater investments in resources that support their learning.
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