Posted on 07/11/2023 8:59:31 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Students who struggled through the height of the Covid-19 pandemic – between March 2020 and early 2023 – are still having trouble keeping up with course work, according to a study from the nonprofit NWEA, which focuses on education research.
“This analysis provides the most current evidence to help guide recovery efforts and resource allocations in support of schools,” an NWEA news release said. “While the pandemic is now deemed over, the impacts on students based on two markers, achievement in reading and mathematics, are still apparent.”
The study used data from 6.7 million public school students from grades 3-8, the release said.
According to the study, “In nearly all grades, achievement gains during 2022-23 fell short of prepandemic trends, which stalled progress toward pandemic recovery.”
The performance gap widened in some grades when comparing students affected by Covid-19 and those before the pandemic, the data showed.
The study found that students need an additional 4.1 months to catch up in reading and 4.5 months of additional instruction to catch up in math. Among those students, Black and Hispanic students “remain furthest from recovery,” the release said.
“COVID-19 may no longer be an emergency, but we are very much still dealing with the fallout from the crisis,” said Dr. Karyn Lewis, co-author of the study and director of the Center for School and Student Progress at NWEA, according to the release.
“These data reiterate that recovery will not be linear, easy, or quick and we cannot take our foot off the gas pedal,” Lewis said. “Disappointing as these results may be, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that things would likely be so much worse without the enduring work of educators and schools to support students in this moment.”
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Sexual grooming is much more important in Amwrican public schools than math.
Along with critical racist theory and other social injustice nonsense.
Despite “charter schools”, “early schools”, and massive parental spending. Seems parents do all that and expect their kids to have high grades so they get them regardless of their actual accomplishments.
The virus attacked the body to make it sick. It didn’t, unfortunately attack the education system. It got sick long before the pandemic.
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Demographics are changing for the worse, as are two parent households.
go back to old teaching methods.
Took 3 paragraphs to qualify that it is PUBLIC schools.
It started circling the bown when God was removed.......then covid lockdowns....when all that happened what did we think was gonna happen?
When my kids were young, they started using the “whole word” method to try to teach kids how to read, instead of phonics.
My kids all knew how to read before they were in first grade, because I taught them how to read with phonics like when I was a kid, so what happened at school didn’t impact us, but the “whole word” method did impact a number of families.
Basically, the method suggests that kids learn their first 100 words by sight, but then they have to guess the new words when it’s not a familiar one. They don’t know how to use phonics to sound out a word. It’s a terrible method.
For English, phonics works great. If it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it.
I agree...
I believe in phonics 100%; however, there are many words in the English language that do not follow the rules of phonics, so we have to memorize sight words and or dulce words that are common to the language. I’m always surprised that students refuse to memorize anything which is a hinderance to all learning.
I absolutely know that when young hildren (say 5 to 12) miss a portion of math/reading curriculum that a review from the beginnig is critical because of the manner in which that age group learns best. Hopefully the curricula are phonics and classical math, requiring lots of memorization
Yes, there are a lot of exceptions, but you get the basics in and then teach the exceptions. That way, kids CAN learn and it’s way better than just taking a guess.
I visited her school....there was her essay along side of the other kids. Not one vowel in the essay. Asked the teacher..."we don't like to discourage them"...ahs....
It took me a while to introduce the concept of vowels as the tie to our words. brd...became bored...or bird or etc etc...
She just graduated with a PHD in biomedical etc etc something or whatever. She's working at the children's hospital in Philly (CHOPS) as a research analyst. She got a Masters too...while she was at it.
Two comments:
1.. Students were struggling with math and reading long before the lockdowns and pandemic era because the emphasis from teachers was wokeness, not learning.
2. So many teachers is seems don’t know the subject they are teaching. A teacher that can’t do 12x12 can’t be expected to teach 12x12. An English teacher that can’t write can’t be expected to teach English etc etc. Teachers today are a product of our woke education system where teaching wokeness and propagandizing students is/was more important that teaching subjects.
The shame is, there are so many good resources online to help with math and reading outside of the classroom, if students are truly motivated to learn.
Very cool.
Once a person learns how to read, the whole world opens up to them.
I like to think of Dr. Ben Carson as a fine example of what can happen when someone is taught how to read.
It seems like it’s not very “cool” to be motivated to learn. Isn’t watching TikTok dare videos way better? (Tongue in cheek)
I heard Dr. Carson speak several years ago at middle school conference in Baltimore. I have read a few of his books. I was so pleased when he ended up in the presidential primaries. Reading is key.
From what I’ve observed a good many teachers appear to be most interested in their TikTok accounts and social issues.
Isn’t math & reading racists or something?
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