What If Falling Test Scores Aren't About Screen Time, But About What Kids Are Drinking? ReBalU May Have a Solution
In 2024, 12th-grade NAEP math and reading scores hit their lowest levels ever recorded. The usual suspects lined up immediately — pandemic learning loss, screen time, chronic absenteeism, underfunding. All plausible. But the decline started well before COVID, and none of those explanations account for a pattern hiding in plain sight: