How U.S. Students Perform in Reading and Math - Voronoi
Feb 28, 2025
How U.S. Students Perform in Reading and Math
Key Takeaways
Since the 1990s, only 3–4% of students have achieved advanced reading skills, such as synthesizing information with supporting evidence from related texts.
Seven in ten students can determine the main idea using explicit text features but struggle to offer an opinion on the evidence an author uses to support a claim.
Only 38% of students can easily solve problems using the Pythagorean Theorem.
