{"id":217190,"date":"2026-05-20T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/americas-schools-are-terrible-at-catching-kids-up-how-ai-can-help-the-74\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T08:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:40:21","slug":"americas-schools-are-terrible-at-catching-kids-up-how-ai-can-help-the-74","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/americas-schools-are-terrible-at-catching-kids-up-how-ai-can-help-the-74\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Schools Are Terrible at Catching Kids Up. How AI Can Help \u2013 The 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/americas-schools-are-terrible-at-catching-kids-up-how-ai-can-help\/\">America\u2019s Schools Are Terrible at Catching Kids Up. How AI Can Help \u2013 The 74<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/americas-schools-are-terrible-at-catching-kids-up-how-ai-can-help\/\">https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/americas-schools-are-terrible-at-catching-kids-up-how-ai-can-help\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-20 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.the74million.org\">www.the74million.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of California at San Diego reported that a majority of incoming freshmen lacked basic middle school math skills, attributing this to the COVID-19 pandemic, the elimination of standardized testing, grade inflation, and expanded admissions from under-resourced high schools.<\/li>\n<li>Despite looking highly successful on paper with 94% having taken advanced math courses and an average GPA of 3.7, students showed inadequate quantitative skills.<\/li>\n<li>A Catch-up Crisis is identified where students who start behind academically tend to remain behind, with low-income and minority students staying in the lower percentiles consistently.<\/li>\n<li>Schools struggle to catch up kids because teachers lack effective tools and resources, intervention programs are poorly implemented, and diagnostic exams are infrequent and sometimes unaligned with classroom material.<\/li>\n<li>AI technology could help teachers by providing real-time insights into student learning, generating evidence-informed strategies to address specific learning gaps, and offering AI-supported coaching tools for better instruction and feedback.<\/li>\n<li>Pilots combining AI tools and professional coaching are showing promising results in increasing student engagement and academic progress.<\/li>\n<li>The article emphasizes the critical role of policymakers in removing barriers that prevent students from excelling by adopting goals like \u201cOn Track in 2,\u201d which aims for students to catch up to grade-level standards within two years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s Schools Are Terrible at Catching Kids Up. How AI Can Help \u2013 The 74&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/artificial-intelligence-in-schools-maryland-825x495.jpg?cb=1032621","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217192,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217190\/revisions\/217192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}