Gloomy first look at math, literacy test scores for grades 3-9

By: Catherine Carrera, Education and child welfare writer

Outlets: NJ Spotlight

Published: September 14, 2026

Words: 1,017

Last Updated: 12 hours, 57 minutes ago

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More than half of New Jersey third-graders are not meeting literacy standards and an overwhelming majority of eighth-graders are not hitting math standards, signals that post-pandemic learning trends continued under the modernized state exams that were administered in the spring.

The New Jersey Department of Education last week shared a preliminary look at grade-level proficiency rates for students in grades 3-9 who took the state Student Learning Assessments-Adaptive in math and reading in April and …

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