After test results published Monday showed that Massachusetts students have lost ground, the state education commissioner announced Tuesday that the department will be taking a more 'supportive' role with school districts.
"We've seen what the pandemic has done, we've seen the losses. Our primary focus has to be on accelerating student learning," he said at a Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meeting Tuesday.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress released standardized test outcomes Monday that show lower scores across grade levels and subject areas when compared to test results from 2019 and earlier. Still, Massachusetts students led among all other states in overall NAEP scores. The MCAS showed mixed results compared with the 2021 scores. Math and science scores increased, while English language arts, or ELA, declined for the second year in a row; yet, compared to 2019 scores,"we have a ways to go", Curtin said.
In grades three through eight Black students scored an average 28 points below their white peers in both 2019 and 2022 in math. Hispanic students scored an average 27 points below white students in 2019 and 29 points below in 2022. Asian students scored the highest across grade levels in 2019 and 2022, with third through eighth graders scoring an average 22 points higher than white students last year.
At the board meeting Tuesday, Curtin, members of the board and Riley acknowledged this learning gap and identified it as an area for improvement.
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