Reversing the reading recession
A new report reveals that the decline in reading skills among students began over a decade ago, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some school districts have successfully reversed this trend by implementing effective teaching methods. The report emphasizes the need for political will to adopt these reforms on a national level.
- ▪The Education Scorecard indicates that the learning recession in reading started in 2013 and worsened before the pandemic.
- ▪States that adopted comprehensive 'science of reading' reforms have seen improvements in reading scores, while those that did not have stagnated or declined.
- ▪Chronic absenteeism among students rose significantly during the pandemic, impacting learning outcomes.
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| Canonical URL | https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/4579254/reversing-reading-recession/ |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 |
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Our nation’s schools are failing to teach our children to read, and a new report shows that the learning loss began more than a decade ago, well before COVID-19. Fortunately, the same report found that some districts have reversed the decline through tried-and-true teaching methods. Now we need the political will to implement those reforms nationally. The Education Scorecard, issued by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research and Stanford’s Educational Opportunity Project, uses data from the Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress to track educational achievement at the school-district level going back decades.
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