San Francisco Chronicle, By Jill Tucker, Staff Writer
The latest national test scores in reading, math and science landed with a loud clank across the country Tuesday, as education leaders and politicians once again denounced the post-pandemic declines, this time in eighth and 12th grades, issuing another urgent call to action.
National scores released Tuesday showed 31% of eighth graders were proficient in science in 2024, down four percentage points from 2019. Among 12th graders, 33% were proficient in math and 37% proficient in reading, a drop of two percentage points in each category. State scores were not included in the release.