On the heels of encouraging news from the Nations’ Report Card, Louisiana students are doing quite well in the Education Recovery Scorecard.
“The Recovery Scorecard is a metric that began out of Harvard and Stanford looking at the impacts of the global pandemic on student learning,” says Dr. Cade Brumley, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education. “From 2019 through 2024, Louisiana students led the country in growth in reading and were second in math.”
That earned Louisiana a unique distinction in the report.
“Louisiana is essentially the only state where the average student has fully recovered from the pandemic,” says Dr. Brumley. “We are also exceeding pre-pandemic numbers in several areas.”
The report showed that Louisiana’s investment of pandemic funding contributed to the academic recovery, especially when targeted at efforts such as summer learning and tutoring.
On the downside, the report said an increase in chronic absenteeism is slowing the recovery in several school systems.
Brumley says it’s a testament to the hard work that teachers are putting in, but the job’s not done.
“Never has our state ranked higher nationally in a state that has been long challenged educationally,” Brumley says. “And so we are certainly pleased but not satisfied, understanding that we have more work to do.”
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