The scale of the disruption to American kids' education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press. The data provide the most comprehensive look yet at how much schoolchildren have fallen behind academically.
Some educators have objected to the very idea of measuring learning loss after a crisis that has killed more than 1 million Americans. Reading and math scores don't tell the entire story about what's happening with a child, but they're one of the only aspects of children's development reliably measured nationwide.
In Memphis, Tennessee, where nearly 80% of students are poor, students lost the equivalent of 70% of a school year in reading and more than a year in math, according to the analysis. The district's Black students lost a year-and-one-third in math and two-thirds of a year in reading. When schools resumed in the fall, the virus swept through Hopewell, and half of all students stayed home either sick or in quarantine, McClain said. A full 40% of students were chronically absent, meaning they missed 18 days or more.In Rochester, New Hampshire, students lost nearly two years in reading even though schools offered in-person learning most of the 2020-2021 school year. It was the largest literacy decline among all the districts in the analysis.
It's hard to tell what explains the vastly different outcomes in some states. In California, where students on average stayed steady or only marginally declined, it could suggest that educators there were better at teaching over Zoom or the state made effective investments in technology, Reardon said.
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Correction: Setbacks are due to human error aka overreach of Government covid policies
You mean lockdown's sweeping toll.
You and the rest of the media are complicit in the damage done to our children.
COVID-19 is an engineered virus.America and its allies its are behind the creation of the virus.We should ask this question to Trudeau
Not the pandemic. Policy did it. Anti-science lockdowns, restrictions and masking policies did this.
What happens during a pandemic.
Remember you called continually for lockdowns? This is your fault. Shame on you.
So in other words… the lockdowns & government fear propaganda were worse than the disease itself… got it!
Why is the report on US kids? Scared to talk about the effects on our own people?