New Jersey is one of the last states in the nation to release its standardized test results from the spring. After more than two years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the report card indicates what many advocates in education had feared — a pattern of learning loss among students. While New Jersey still rates ahead of many states by some metrics, the test results show noticeable declines in English language arts and math.
Latest NJ student test scores show pattern of learning loss
New Jersey was one of the last states to release its standardized test results from the spring
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An Emmy award-winning journalist, Briana Vannozzi serves as the anchor for NJ Spotlight News, the newsroom of NJ PBS. She's worked in several capacities since joining the news division in 2012, as interim anchor and senior correspondent after years of general assignment reporting as a multimedia journalist. Vannozzi began her television journalism career by cutting her teeth on New Jersey State House politics for New Jersey Network News, and later as a news radio correspondent at FM News 101.9 covering crime and politics in New York City. Her work has taken her to national presidential nominating conventions, Capitol Hill, up and down the East Coast and every corner of the Garden State. She's interviewed every New Jersey governor dating back to Jon Corzine and moderated numerous political debates and forums. Her work has also earned awards from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists and the Philadelphia Press Association. A Burlington County native, she's honored to be serving and covering her home state and raising her family there.
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John Mooney is the founding editor of NJ Spotlight News, starting the news site in 2009 after more than 30 years in print journalism. Before NJ Spotlight News, John was an education reporter with the Newark Star-Ledger and the Bergen Record and a contributing writer for The New York Times.