{"id":483,"date":"2025-09-23T20:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/?p=483"},"modified":"2025-10-07T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:23:49","slug":"u-s-high-school-seniors-reading-and-math-scores-decline-to-lowest-levels-in-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"U.S. High School Seniors\u2019 Reading and Math Scores Decline to Lowest Levels in 20 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2024 results reveal a significant decline in U.S. high school seniors&#8217; academic performance. Only 35% achieved proficiency in reading, and just 22% in math, marking the lowest levels in two decades. Contributing factors include increased absenteeism, reduced student engagement, and overreliance on digital devices. Experts warn that these trends threaten college readiness and future workforce preparedness, underscoring the need for urgent educational reforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G1NubSaWUAEuXqZ-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G1NubSaWUAEuXqZ-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G1NubSaWUAEuXqZ-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G1NubSaWUAEuXqZ-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G1NubSaWUAEuXqZ-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/G1NubSaWUAEuXqZ.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2024 reading results for 12th-graders continued declines that began even before the pandemic. \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1NDzC7mGv8\">pic.twitter.com\/1NDzC7mGv8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NAEP, The Nation&#39;s Report Card (@NAEP_NCES) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAEP_NCES\/status\/1966124643917443272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 11, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first post-pandemic mathematics results for 12th-graders are sobering. Here are four key findings from the 2024 report. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jdIdM0EsPa\">pic.twitter.com\/jdIdM0EsPa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NAEP, The Nation&#39;s Report Card (@NAEP_NCES) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NAEP_NCES\/status\/1965784906933432718?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 2024 results reveal a significant decline in U.S. high school seniors&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[94,93,77],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egitim","tag-math","tag-reading","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatica.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}