Ben Chapman
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first heard Jan 2023
last heard Jan 2023
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K-12 students, on average, will become less educated, lower skilled, and less productive adults if these learning losses that occur during the pandemic are not addressed.
Basically, students lost out on instruction during the pandemic.
Schools were closed for months at a time, and districts were ill-prepared to deliver lessons remotely.
And while there was the loss in classroom time happening, students also dealt with a lot of trauma around losses of jobs, families moving, family members getting sick.
So the overall impact was a big setback for young people.
There is a federal exam called the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
It is the gold standard in national academic metrics.
And this federal exam was administered just before the pandemic and just after the pandemic sort of began to recede.
And so this gave us a pretty clear before and after picture of students' math and reading skills.
Broadly, the tests showed that students suffered historic, never-seen-before losses in reading and math.
They lost decades of progress in both of those subjects.
Students are taking longer to learn concepts this year.
They require more tutoring and they're struggling to engage in group activities.
This is what's reported by teachers.
During periods of remote learning, the quality of reading and math instruction suffered.
And particularly in math,
Group lessons are often very important.
The discussion of whys is important.
And when it came to remote lessons, this type of instruction often found itself sort of relying on memorization and mimicry rather than a deeper understanding of the concepts beneath subjects.
The economists at Stanford who conducted this study found that K-12 students on average will become less educated, lower skilled, and less productive adults if these learning losses that occur during the pandemic are not addressed.
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