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Trump administration cuts education data collection as scores fall

Original: ✂️ Trump administration guts data collection on US education as math and reading scores plummet “We were going to study

The Trump administration is scaling back federal data collection on US education, cutting long-running studies that tracked how the pandemic affected young children's learning. Critics say key research on first and third graders has been cancelled just as national math and reading scores are dropping, leaving educators and policymakers without the evidence needed to understand and address learning loss.

Why now: Falling student test scores combined with the removal of the data needed to understand them has alarmed educators and researchers.

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• ✂️ Trump administration guts data collection on US education as math and reading scores plummet “We were going to study them into their first and third grade years to see how the pandemic influenced their development and their learning, but now we’ll never know because we’re… · jbz@indieweb.social · 5

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