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Minnesota Test Scores Down Since Pandemic; MDE Pledges To Do More
Fewer than half of Minnesota students are proficient in math and 51 percent are proficient in reading, according to newly released results.
Fewer than half of Minnesota students are proficient in math and 51% are proficient in reading, according to newly released results of standardized test scores.
The portion proficient in math decreased from 55% to 45% since the the last pre-pandemic round of tests.
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Minnesota children proficient in reading decreased from 59% to 51%.
Just 41% of Minnesota students are proficient in science, down from 51% in 2019.
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Seven percent of students didn’t take the tests, down from 20% in 2021. The tests weren’t given in 2020.
Minnesota’s racial gaps in education — for years among the nation’s worst — continued. Nearly 60% of white students were proficient in reading, compared to 31% of Black and Hispanic students, according to the Star Tribune.
The state Department of Education announced that 371 public schools — including 15 entire school districts — have been identified for varying levels of extra support through Minnesota’s “North Star accountability system.”
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