{"id":65570,"date":"2026-05-13T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/13\/kids-test-scores-began-declining-way-before-covid-these-schools-are-making-gains-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:01:00","slug":"kids-test-scores-began-declining-way-before-covid-these-schools-are-making-gains-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/13\/kids-test-scores-began-declining-way-before-covid-these-schools-are-making-gains-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids&#8217; test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains &#8211; NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMieEFVX3lxTFBwc2lhMmtvdGF2d1pMV2s1VkQzYUVyVUhPR0ROVnAyR196MXlKcmc0WUtidWdxR2tsRGc4SHUxTW9kOHBmZ0kwNTU2Qk9YODdZbkZPckNWSlBrVWtfcXQ2NFZzZHJCTHppNGVkV0RqVURQSDNybTFVVg?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Kids&#8217; test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">NPR<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxPN2x3T3JrWGdtM2ViVzg5OEpZXzhGWE9Xby1MdE1DX1Q2Z2EwdmhIc0N5WWQ5alhtTHNva2pBVk01WkR6ZUdjRC1LY3JLLVJDaHRHVDlETWN5QVpURFQ1SFRudlE4Z1RsR0tFM0E4RVo4aHRYQUFwdkNONWphSEt5dmg1d2o?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Your School District Is Probably Scoring Worse Than 10 Years Ago<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The New York Times<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiugFBVV95cUxQYV92NVpxdjBURXZRLUl3U0pZNG9mYWNyVFRuMk5ZbWpjOUFTY1ZxUTFHRmxlaGY1by1LbW5DUFg1NWRmLXhlQkZDUjlWWDJyWVpDdkZDOGNUdXlnWElKMVhaVTF1OU9DOENMQ1VEazVwZkZGOUljY1I2MXNLYVRpcjJLM3VlRGJkRzU3N0xDYzZQVFI2S3NPM2pWajRmdUdVcjNnb3d0cEUzQzB4VGNCT21OUk53Wko1Unc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Alabama school districts stand out among US for these education gains<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">AL.com<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiiwFBVV95cUxOdTFOUDV2anJLSlJVQ3ZNY2p4Yjk0M2hPVXh1SVlzRjFEdENIYWdzcXVscWZieVpNM2dlaWd6QW9xS3pieGNRanpnQTJsZ1NleHQwOFZpblhLSXFEcGdZTlJvVmVMT1UtM0JsZV9nYkQyaUtGaXRjdGRmVzNEME82UmVLeTNpXzhvNm93?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Reading, math scores are sliding nationwide. These Pa. school districts are bucking the trend<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">90.5 WESA<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihwFBVV95cUxNaW55RHNtN0YtV3A4Nm5BMUVtdlVBXzY4ZnVyWlBzMDhoMEpOaUozdWhnaHdIQjZoVWVSN3pMMmwya04tNlRDdWN2X0daRDh0dEtHeUkzSjdFeUszVWRwSFpGNllucndVWUd3MjQ3SE92Sy1BM2hqdXZOMFZlMV9wLWUyeG1hNnc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">New Education Scorecard Finds &#8220;U-Shaped Recovery&#8221;: High- and Low-Income Districts Improve Most Since 2022, While Middle-Income Districts (30-70% Federally Subsidized Lunches) Lag<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Yahoo Finance<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids&#8217; test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains&nbsp;&nbsp;NPR Your School District Is Probably Scoring Worse Than 10 Years Ago&nbsp;&nbsp;The New&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/13\/kids-test-scores-began-declining-way-before-covid-these-schools-are-making-gains-npr\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}