The pressure is building for schools, as NWEA, an educational research organization, recently revealed that its MAP Growth assessment results suggest it will take 4.1 additional months of reading instruction and 4.5 more months of math for students to catch up to pre-pandemic achievement levels.
In that same report, NWEA said “marginalized students remain the furthest from recovery.”
Booker took note of these ongoing academic performance inequities in a statement alongside his legislation’s reintroduction.
