(citc) — the top education official in louisiana explained wednesday why he thinks his state was the only one to surpass pre-pandemic reading levels in the 2024 national assessment of educational progress (naep). · baton rouge, la. · five years after the pandemic first closed the nation’s schools, national test scores show students … · in 2019, louisianas fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading. Now, theyre 16th. There was one exception: · in 2024, the nation’s education recovery scorecard called out louisiana as the only state in the country … · while the overall performance of students across the country has remained stagnant, louisiana has … - louisianas fourth- and eighth-grade students saw historic growth in their reading and math scores, the newest edition of the national assessment of educational progress. · five years after the pandemic first closed the nations schools, national test scores show students backsliding in reading all over the united states. · for more than two decades, louisiana has had a strong system for holding its schools accountable and that …