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4th grade reading, 8th grade math scores continue to plunge in WA despite more spending

Mercer Island police investigating possible murder-suicide of mother and son Mercer Island Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide at a home on Wembley Lane.Police say officers were called ...
komonews

Washington 8th grade math scores decline despite increased education spending

WASHINGTON STATE — In a KOMO News Waste Watch Report, the math isn't penciling out in Washington. Math proficiency scores dropped again among the state's 8th-grade students, according to the National ...
The Hechinger Report

Three reasons why so few eighth graders in the poorest schools take algebra

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Education Week

Two Decades of Progress, Nearly Gone: National Math, Reading Scores Hit Historic Lows

The pandemic has smacked American students back to the last century in math and reading achievement, according to the tests known as the Nation’s Report Card. Results for students who took the test in ...