Struggling students just posted their worst reading scores in over 30 years. Results from what's known as the Nation's Report Card. They were released today showing that students are falling further behind in reading. The National News Desk Geoff Harris joining us, some concerning numbers, Geoff, math scores showed little improvement, a little improvement. But those reading results, they have educators you spoke with worried.
Yeah, concerning but not surprised is what I kept hearing over and over again today, Dea Dea. The National Assessment of Educational Progress is considered one of the best gauges of academic progress in the U.S. school system, and the results today showed that reading skills are getting much worse. Nicole Bradford, a former educator for over 20 years, tells us it's concerning to see the results from the latest Nation's Report Card.
It shows us that what we're doing currently is not working.
Given every two years, the exam was administered in early 2024, testing fourth and eighth grade students in every state on math and also in reading. The results? Students are still lagging behind pre-pandemic levels.
Data from the report card shows that reading scores specifically have been on the decline for years now. Let's take a look at some of the numbers. Fourth grade scores that you see here represented with the blue bar there on the left-hand portion of your screen dropped from 220 in 2019 to 215 in 2024. Eighth grade scores that are represented by the purple bar here, they fell from 263 in 2019 to 258 last year.
Now, the U.S. Education Department says the results are, quote, heartbreaking and reflect an education system that is failing students despite billions of dollars in annual funding and more than $190 billion in Federal Pandemic Relief.
- Fall behind: ๋ค์ฒ์ง๋ค
He fell behind in his work after missing several days.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ฉฐ์น ๊ฒฐ์ํ ํ ์
๋ฌด์์ ๋ค์ฒ์ก๋ค.
- Gauge: ์ธก์ ๊ธฐ, ๊ธฐ์ค, ์งํ
This test is a good gauge of a student's reading ability.
์ด ์ํ์ ํ์์ ์ฝ๊ธฐ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ์ธก์ ํ๋ ์ข์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ด๋ค.
- Administer: ์ค์ํ๋ค
The school administers exams every two years.
ํ๊ต๋ 2๋
๋ง๋ค ์ํ์ ์ค์ํ๋ค.
- Lag behind: ๋ค์ฒ์ง๋ค, = fall behind
She lagged behind the rest of the runners.
๊ทธ๋
๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ฃผ์๋ค๋ณด๋ค ๋ค์ฒ์ก๋ค.
If you donโt practice regularly, you will lag behind in class.
์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ์ตํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉด, ์์
์์ ๋ค์ฒ์ง๊ฒ ๋ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค.
ํ์
์ ์ด๋ ค์์ ๊ฒช๋ ํ์๋ค์ด 30๋
๋ง์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๋ฎ์ ์ฝ๊ธฐ ์ฑ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋กํ๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ์ ๊ตญ ํ์
์ฑ์ทจ ํ๊ฐ(Nation's Report Card) ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๊ฐ ์ค๋ ๋ฐํ๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํ์๋ค์ด ์ฝ๊ธฐ์์ ์ ์ ๋ ๋ค์ฒ์ง๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค.
๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ฌ์ด ์์น๋ค์ด ๋์ค๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ ํ, ์ํ ์ฑ์ ์ ์ฝ๊ฐ์ ํฅ์์ด ์์์ง๋ง, ์ฝ๊ธฐ ์ฑ์ ์ ์ฌ๊ฐํ ์์ค์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ด ์ ์ด ๊ต์ก ๊ด๊ณ์๋ค์๊ฒ ํฐ ์ฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ผ์ผํค๊ณ ์๋ค.
"๊ทธ๋ ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ฑฑ์ ์ค๋ฌ์ด ์ํฉ์ด์ง๋ง ๋๋์ง๋ ์๋ค๋ ๋ง์ ์ค๋ ํ๋ฃจ ์ข
์ผ ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค."
์ ๊ตญ ํ์
์ฑ์ทจ ํ๊ฐ(National Assessment of Educational Progress)๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ต์ก ์์คํ
์์ ํ์
์ฑ์ทจ๋๋ฅผ ํ๊ฐํ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ ์งํ ์ค ํ๋๋ก ์ฌ๊ฒจ์ง๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ค๋ ๋ฐํ๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ ์ฝ๊ธฐ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ด ๋์ฑ ์
ํ๋๊ณ ์์์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์๋ค.
20๋
์ด์ ๊ต์ก์๋ก ์ผํด ์จ ๋์ฝ ๋ธ๋๋ํผ๋๋ ์ด๋ฒ ์ ๊ตญ ํ์
์ฑ์ทจ ํ๊ฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๊ณ ์ฌ๊ฐํ ์ฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ํํ๋ค.
"ํ์ฌ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํ๊ณ ์๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ด์ง ์๋ค๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋ค."
์ด ์ํ์ 2๋
๋ง๋ค ์ค์๋๋ฉฐ, 2024๋
์ด์ ์ ๊ตญ์ ์ผ๋ก 4ํ๋
๊ณผ 8ํ๋
ํ์๋ค์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ์ํ๊ณผ ์ฝ๊ธฐ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ํ๊ฐํ๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋? ํ์๋ค์ ์ฌ์ ํ ํฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์ด์ ์์ค์ ๋๋ฌํ์ง ๋ชปํ๊ณ ์๋ค.
๋ณด๊ณ ์์ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ํนํ ์ฝ๊ธฐ ์ ์๋ ์๋
๋์ ๊ณ์ํด์ ํ๋ฝํ๊ณ ์๋ค. ๋ช ๊ฐ์ง ์์น๋ฅผ ์ดํด๋ณด์. ํ๋ฉด ์ผ์ชฝ์ ํ๋์ ๋ง๋๋ก ํ์๋ 4ํ๋
์ ์๋ 2019๋
220์ ์์ 2024๋
215์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๋ฝํ๋ค. ๋ณด๋ผ์ ๋ง๋๋ก ํ์๋ 8ํ๋
์ ์๋ 2019๋
263์ ์์ ์ง๋ํด 258์ ์ผ๋ก ๋จ์ด์ก๋ค.
๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ต์ก๋ถ๋ ์ด๋ฒ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ๋ํด "๊ฐ์ด ์ํ ์ผ์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋ง๋ํ ์ฐ๊ฐ ๊ต์ก ์์ฐ๊ณผ 1,900์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์ด์์ ํฌ๋ฐ๋ฏน ์ง์๊ธ์๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ๊ต์ก ์์คํ
์ด ํ์๋ค์ ์ ๋๋ก ์ง์ํ์ง ๋ชปํ๊ณ ์์์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋ค"๊ณ ๋ฐํ๋ค.