{"id":3915,"date":"2025-09-15T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/15\/whats-caused-reading-scores-to-drop-to-worst-point-in-decades-education-expert-weighs-in\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:38:12","slug":"whats-caused-reading-scores-to-drop-to-worst-point-in-decades-education-expert-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/15\/whats-caused-reading-scores-to-drop-to-worst-point-in-decades-education-expert-weighs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s caused reading scores to drop to worst point in decades? Education expert weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Math and reading scores dropped to their lowest levels in more than two decades among high school seniors. That&#8217;s according to the Nation\u2019s Report Card put out by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It shows that student achievement has continued to decline since the pandemic. There are many theories about what\u2019s going on, and William Brangham explored some of that with Thomas Kane.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math and reading scores dropped to their lowest levels in more than two decades among high school seniors. That&#8217;s according to the Nation\u2019s Report Card put out by the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It shows that student achievement has continued to decline since the pandemic. There are many theories about what\u2019s going on, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}