Jacque Schrag/Axios Students in Florida — and across the U.S. — had low reading comprehension scores last year in a learning loss trend exacerbated by the pandemic, according to a national education report released Wednesday.

Reading scores among fourth graders on the 2024 assessments are the same as the 2022 results – which Gov. Glenn Youngkin called catastrophic at the time.

New Mexico students, including those in Albuquerque, have not recovered academically from the pandemic, according to newly released test scores often called "The Nation's Report Card." The scores released Wednesday from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show declines in reading and math scores among fourth grade and eighth grade students in the state between 2024 and

Every other year, the Nation's Report Card shows how students across the U.S. are doing in subjects like math and reading. The 2024 results are cause for hope, and concern.