Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on the Education and Development of American Students

Abstract

After the COVID-19 pandemic, the vast majority of American children have fallen behind on core subjects due to the ultimate ineffectiveness of remote learning. This study attempts to discover the degree to which children have fallen behind through the trends in the National Association of Educational Procurement’s two most recent testing years. A database accessed from Google has been analyzed, filtered by state and visualized in tables in order to indicate any possible trends as a result of remote learning brought on by the pandemic. By looking at data in seven different states across the country, there is a notable decline in the performance scores of students in both elementary and middle school in math and reading. This indicates a need to allocate more resources toward getting American schoolchildren caught back up in learning core subjects.