Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: US math and reading test scores are at a 25-year low. Trump cut the agency that can provide answers

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Source: theguardian.com

<p>National Center for Education Statistics, which collects critical data to guide policy on learning, was decimated after Doge canceled crucial contracts</p><p>As reading and math scores fall to their <a href="https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volume-i-country-notes_2d4ff9ea-en/united-states_0c8cbc7c-en.html#section-d1e280" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">lowest point</a> in the past quarter-century, the US now has fewer tools to understand and develop interventions for this troubling trend.</p><p>When the Trump administration took a wrecking ball to the Department of Education last year, firing nearly half of its workers and allowing the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) to cancel <a href="https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889113011282907434" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">nearly $900m</a> in contracts, a little-known agency called the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) was among the hardest hit.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/25/student-math-reading-test-scores" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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