The pandemic took a 'profound toll' on America's schoolchildren, causing historic setbacks in math and reading and erasing decades of academic progress, a government agency warned on Monday.Across the US, math scores saw their biggest decreases ever, and reading scores fell to levels not seen since the early 1990s, according to National Assessment of Educational Progress — known as the 'nation's report card'.The collected scores of hundreds of thousands of fourth and eighth graders found that nearly four in 10 eighth graders failed to grasp basic math concepts — a sign of the devastating effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on America's children.
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