Massive learning setbacks show COVID's sweeping toll on kids
In Memphis, where nearly 80% of students are poor, they lost the equivalent of 70% of a school year in reading and more than a year in math.
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In Memphis, where nearly 80% of students are poor, they lost the equivalent of 70% of a school year in reading and more than a year in math.
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated poor children’s well-being, not just by closing their schools, but also by taking away their parents’ jobs, sickening their families and teachers, and adding chaos and fear to their daily lives. The scale of the disruption to American kids’ education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively…
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated poor children's well-being, not just by closing their schools, but also by taking away their parents' jobs, sickening their families and teachers, and adding chaos and fear to their daily lives.
The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered classrooms set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in high-poverty areas affected the most, according to a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press
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.