Schooling Subsequent Editor-in-Chief and Nationwide Evaluation Governing Board member Martin R. West hosts a dialogue of the 2022 Nationwide Evaluation of Academic Progress Lengthy-Time period Development outcomes for 9-year-olds. The Lengthy-Time period Development evaluation, a math and studying examination in use for the reason that Seventies, was administered to 9-year-olds in early 2020 earlier than quarantine closures and once more in 2022 after faculties have been reopened. The choice to check 9-year-olds a second time post-pandemic was spearheaded by West. As he wrote in his editor’s letter for the Winter 2022 situation of Schooling Subsequent, “my colleagues unanimously authorized a movement I authored to revise the evaluation schedule to check 9-year-olds quite than 17-year-olds in January 2022… we’re happy that the Nation’s Report Card will present the primary high-quality, nationally consultant proof on simply how a lot further work must be completed to assist college students catch up.”