john torres and erika edwards here with us as well, thank you both. >>> when it comes to math and readingrican students are falling behind. the so-called's nation's report card was released today with a special focus on fourth and eighth grade students across the u.s. and found math scores this year saw their biggest decrease in recorded history and reading scores dropped to levels not seep since 1992. nbc news correspondent rehema ellis is outside a public school in new york city. are a hela, this is the first test conducted since 2019 and the first assessment of all of this before covid was the last one. what are the other headlines we're seeing. >> well, one of the headlines that we should be mindful of is that this is a test of some 450,000 students all across country so if people are thinking it's somebody else's kids not mine, it's everybody's kids. one of the things that they said about this is every single demographic was affected by pandemic learning. it was not good for our kids. you put up some. numbers, but let me give you more indication of what was happening, particularly a