Our nation’s schools are failing to teach our children to read, and a new report shows that the learning loss began more than a decade ago, well before COVID-19. Fortunately, the same report found that some districts have reversed the decline through tried-and-true teaching methods. Now we need the political will to implement those reforms nationally.

The Education Scorecard, issued by Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research and Stanford’s Educational Opportunity Project, uses data from the Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress to track educational achievement at the school-district level going back decades.