"So I don't become a Waffle House waitress?..."
Posted on 03/10/2022 5:33:40 AM PST by george76
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a troubling impact on the reading skills of school kids in the youngest grades.
A series of new studies indicate that roughly one-third of the youngest school kids are behind on reading benchmarks, appreciably higher than before the pandemic.
For kindergarten students nationwide, the percentage of students at highest risk for not learning to read rose 8 percent during the pandemic, from 29 percent in the middle of the 2019-20 school year to 37 percent in the middle of the 2021-22 school year, according to a study conducted by Amplify, a curriculum and assessment company.
Black and Hispanic students in kindergarten, first grade and second grade have been “disproportionately impacted” by learning loss, the study found.
Another study, conducted in Virginia, found that about 35 percent in the state scored below their expected levels in fall 2021 — a 20-year low that the researchers characterized as “alarming.”
“Especially alarming, overall K-2 Fall 2021 scores indicate the highest percentage of students scoring below benchmark at grade-level entry ever observed at the fall assessment,” reads the University of Virginia study.
“Further, Fall 2021 rates of below-benchmark scores among first and second grade students were the highest documented in PALS history in those grades at fall assessment.”
A study conducted by Curriculum Associates, published in November, concluded that early elementary grades “have not yet caught up to pre-pandemic on-grade level performance.”
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New York’s high school Regents exams scheduled for January were canceled due to the surge in coronavirus cases driven by the Omicron variant. That came after in spring 2021, about 80 percent of Big Apple students between third and eighth grades did not take annual state exams intended to gauge math and English proficiency.
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You’d think kids would have opened a few books here and there without having to go to school. I guess Xbox won that battle.
BINGO!
Who needs to be able to read? We all have cell phones that talk to us now. They read for us. sarc/
How do they learn to read when all they do is watch videos on their phones? you are correct!
"So I don't become a Waffle House waitress?..."
So they could wear masks and the teachers can Virtue Soapbox.
https://projecttransformation.org/ is an organization that directly addresses this issue.
According to reading teachers, students in 2nd and 3rd grades are basically starting at zero. Online school was useless. Future learning for these groups will be severely impacted.
I blame the parents.
I also blame the parents. My wife used “Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons” when each of our two boys became three years old. They could read before they went to kindergarten.
In fact teaching a child to read is about as easy as it gets. Kids' minds are like sponges and absorb everything they come into contact with. Start them out with the letters and their basic sound equivalents ... there are only 26 letters in the English alphabet. The mind has to mature a bit before the child will understand the connection between making a sequence of sounds and the actual words they represent, but once that maturation begins, something will go "click" and he'll be reading anything and everything.
Reading skill
If it doesn’t appear on the screen, it doesn’t exist. books are archaic
Time for the Dims to fund a massive ‘get caught up’ plan. Pubbies will join in.
How about no vacations for a few years? You snooze you lose.
I don’t believe there has been much of a drop because students were already receiving substandard educations; this COVID will be used to obscure that fact/muddy the waters. In 20 years we’ll be told 25 year-old urban predators are blameless because their school was remote in 2020.
I’m shocked that 9/11 is still being listed as the cause of death for 70+ year-olds dying today; many healthy people don’t live as long. I guess the families get a cut of the 9/11 funds...
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Oh, wow, the BeijingBiden apologists have finally nailed another advantage to trying to kill the middle class via lockdowns — cover for not having taught kiddies to read. Period.
My wife used that as well. Our six year old reads better than many above her age
I work in psychiatry and see several teachers as patients.
Many tell me that kindergarteners are coming to school without having been taught any semblance of their alphabet, their numbers. Many can’t write their own name. One teacher said one child didn’t even KNOW their own name.
They say behaviors are out of control and the parents are entitled and demanding as hell.
I believe so many just cop out when it comes to spending any sort of time with their kids. They’re sitting in front of their own computers and phones and the kids are doing the same.
We’re truly going to be a nation of total nitwits before long — we’re at least halfway there.
I see that contrasted with high school students who are petrified of getting a B and set unbelievable standards for themselves, taking several AP classes as early as sophomore years ...they are clamoring to get into the best schools, the best of everything.
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