You can look at other states and at the 8th grade. It's the same pattern almost everywhere: achievements peaked in 2014 and have been declining. CA, WA, NY were

You can look at other states and at the 8th grade. It's the same pattern almost everywhere: achievements peaked in 2014 and have been declining. CA, WA, NY were hit pretty severely. I like to look at 4th grade because most of the learning by that grade _is_ memorization.