Is the equity agenda to blame for falling test scores? - UnHerd

A new report card for the American public school system has arrived, and the results aren’t good.
The news is especially dire for two of the chief influences on US education: social-justice pedagogy and tech-centred instruction.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is administered to a sample of students in American grades 4, 8, and 12 to track student performance in reading, math, and other areas. 

• New NAEP data published this week shows a significant drop in the performance of high-school seniors since 2019 in both reading and maths. 
• Long-term trends show an even bigger fall-off. Shockingly, average reading scores are almost 10 points lower than they were in 1992...