The reading skills of middle- and elementary-school students in the U.S. has declined the COVID-19 pandemic, according what's know as The Nation's Report Card. 

The report, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, from the National Center for Education Statistics, was conducted 2024 and showed that one-third of eighth-grade students scored below “basic” in reading. 

“The news is not good,” the said the group's commissioner, Peggy Carr, according to The Associated Press. “We are not seeing the progress we need to regain the ground our students lost during the pandemic.”

The report is an educational assessment that measures data and shows some progress on math at the elementary- and middle-school levels at the state and district level.