Massive learning setbacks show COVID's sweeping toll on kids across the country, data show

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Massive learning setbacks show COVID's sweeping toll on kids across the country, data shows

The alarming dip in math proficiency and smaller declines in English in the last two pandemic-disrupted school years hit students who were already behind.247th in the state rankings, according to the analysis. L.A. Unified scores were below the state average prior to the pandemic.

Chronic absenteeism for similar reasons also was a major problem in Los Angeles and other local school systems.L.A. Unified officials knock on doors, urging chronically absent students to return The 4,000-student district, where most are white and nearly half live in poverty, had to close schools in November 2020 when too few teachers could report for work, Superintendent Kyle Repucci said. Students studied online until March 2021, and when schools reopened, many chose to stay with remote learning, Repucci said.

Now, the onus is on America’s adults to work toward students’ recovery, the researchers said. For the federal government and individual states, advocates hope the recent releases of test data could inspire more urgency to direct funding to the students who suffered the largest setbacks, whether it’s academic or other support.

 

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No to from Fauci-19 at all. The toll is due to the severe, unjustified, over reaction to a cold.

You misspelled Lockdowns. Don’t blame the disease of unknown origin. It was the Lockdowns.

It's time to activate a new way to learn Covid proved this

No. It’s from teachers unions keeping kids locked down.

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