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That is the stark message from an Oxford study which looked at data gathered in the Netherlands. However, researchers believe the findings are applicable to the UK and elsewhere. Schools in the Netherlands closed for eight weeks during its first lockdown, with research suggesting primary age students lost a fifth of the progress they would usually make in a year. The study was undertaken by Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. Its authors Per Engzell, and DPhil candid...

Primary school pupils learned little or nothing from online lessons during lockdown and lost a fifth of the progress they would have made in the classroom, a study has found. The report from Oxford University says that while remote teaching was often of a high quality, youngsters education still suffered. Lower levels of learning were even greater in families from disadvantaged backgrounds. The findings originally came from data gathered in the Netherlands, where schools closed for eight weeks ...

Date Time Children learned ‘little or nothing’ during school closures, despite online learning School closures in the last year have led to serious learning losses, with primary-age school pupils making virtually no progress studying at home, according to a new study by researchers at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, published in Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Learning losses were particularly pronounced in families with low levels of education...