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As students continue to battle learning loss, teachers are encouraging them to start preparing for the school year now.

Children’s education has suffered the brunt of Sri Lanka’s economic blow, writes Thursica Kovinthan Levi (University of Toronto).

From the editorial, "This is progressive “equity” at work. Never mind that Mr. Hostman doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The remote learning tragedy was hardly spread equally among students and will weigh down underprivileged kids the most."

Any activity that you and your child enjoy can be educational, sometimes with just small tweaks.

Study shows students arent making up what we lost for them from the pandemic-era learning losses. even worse, they are going backwards. among the key findings gains in student achievement fell short of pre-lockdown levels in most elementary grades. standardized testing shows students would need more than four months of instruction in each subject just to catch up. many continue to blame the teachers unions for all of it. critics say the unions went too far and had too much focus and politics and...

Fauci expect to use to control the spread of a respiratory virus? he was calling for school closures, he was calling for many of the devastating policies that we actually followed that have led to huge numbers of kids with learning loss, depression at catastrophic levels, opioid abuse at catastrophic levels, economic damage. he basically was ignoring every single thing that could harm american health except for his view of the lockdowns which he thought was the only way to protect american. imag...

Has set in. i believe that one reason for that is there still a reluctance to confront, to reckon with, the initial decisions that led us to this point. -- [interpreter] we are still facing a tremendous problem. we need to do more for. >> ive spoken to those who have been hardest hit. are there certain, whether it be gender income level, races? which communities have really suffered the biggest toll from this learning loss? >> the numbers are so clear. the effect has been so racially disproporti...

Group is down nine points from 2019 for reading scores are down four points, as well. this comes as students, teachers, and educators continue to grapple with the fallout of how covid-19 severely impacted classrooms all over the world. joining us now senior reporter for propublica alec mcguinness new reporting shedding light on one virginia community that is grappling with this. you are looking at richmond. im curious if you could give us the lay of the land there. first of all, how severe is th...

Learning loss during summer break is a concern for many educators and parents. It's known as the "summer slide."

Since being allocated $67 million in ESSER III funds from the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021, the district has used the federal stimulus to support activities that align with these themes.