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Test scores show historic COVID setbacks for kids across US

Scores for Utah’s eighth graders didn’t drop as much as other states, but fourth graders faced the same decline.

(Kelley Smith | La Porte County Herald-Dispatch via AP) In this Oct. 19, 2020, file photo Michigan City, Ind., area school students return for in-person instruction after two months of remote learning to start the new school year. The COVID-19 pandemic spared no state or region as it caused historic learning setbacks for America’s children, erasing decades of academic progress and widening racial disparities, according to results of a national test that provide the sharpest look yet at the scale of the crisis.