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Articles by Lauren Forrow
Covid-19 Hit Hardest at the Most Vulnerable. So did School Closures
When the Covid-19 pandemic started in March 2020, schools in the United States closed immediately and remained closed for the rest of that school year. When school was set to start again the following fall, many school districts decided to continue online virtual education as a mitigation measure. Other districts decided to resume in-person schooling, many with masking and social distancing in place.
Generation Lost: The Pandemic’s Lifetime Tax
Reports of drops in student achievement due to the pandemic are now treated as old news. Amid abstract reporting of test results, a sense of inevitability and complacency has developed. After all, could the fact that students’ math scores fell by “nine points” truly be important? The reality is that the cohort of students in school in March 2020 has been seriously harmed—implicitly facing a lifetime tax on earnings of 6 percent. And the harm is not going away.
Absenteeism Mires Recovery from Pandemic Learning Losses
With the latest national test results showing a dispiriting lack of progress in catching students up academically in the wake of the pandemic, one potential explanation stands out: stubbornly high rates of student absenteeism. Vast numbers of students haven’t returned to class regularly since schools reopened.
State and Local NAEP Declines Were More Universal Than Commonly Reported
In math, declines in both grades in DCPS were unequivocal: the National Center for Education Statistics judged them to be statistically significant, and our Bayesian analysis also finds that the declines were substantial—virtually certain to be educationally meaningful: the red part of the bar indicates the probability of a decline exceeding 3 points.
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