Despite the federal government giving states and school districts billions of dollars to combat student learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, student achievement is on the decline across the nation, according to a new analysis.
An Atlanta school is adding tutoring sessions in the face of mounting evidence that remote learning during the pandemic took its toll on young readers Despite the federal government giving states and school districts billions of dollars to combat student learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, student achievement is on the decline across the nation, and the money to solve it may not be enough, especially for places with the greatest needs, according toWhile federal emergency relief dollars...
"Despite the radically different impacts that the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic have had on US society and on the US K-12 educational system specifically, we can document commonalities in federal policy during these two crises," wrote Steinberg and his co-author Kenneth Shores, an assistant professor in education and social policy at the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development, wrote. $1.
A recent national report shows the nation's 9-year-olds severely fell behind in math and reading during the pandemic. And while no group of students was left untouched by declining standardized test scores, the gaps in achievement only widened between Black and Hispanic students in comparison to their white and Asian peers.