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. Across …

Arizona fourth-grade English language-arts scores held steady despite the pandemic, according to the Making Action Possible Dashboard, a project of the Economic and Business Research Center in the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management.

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