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Declines in M-STEP test scores point to looming challenge after a year of pandemic learning in Michigan

DATE:  August 31, 2021
Test scores in Michigan schools slumped during the past academic year, as educators and students scrambled to adjust amid a once-in-a-century pandemic.

Results released Tuesday from the M-STEP, the state’s federally mandated standardized test given to students in grades three through seven, and similar tests given in grades eight and 11, show steep declines in learning during the 2020-21 school year in almost all grades and subjects.

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