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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Let’s see the breakdown by state. It’s not in the report.
Prediction: FL did much better than the average. Desantis was really on point here. Forced schools to stay open. The Teachers Union (and msm) had fits!
He’s a fantastic governor.
Drugs didn’t work in the ‘90s so now they want to go full “Josef Mengele” on our children.
Students struggled with math long before the pandemic.
It would also be nice to have students who are interesting in learning and parents who insisted they do so.
I would tell my kids...”That’s your job. It’s what you’re supposed to be doing at this point in time. Anything else you choose to do is a bonus...”. Work and have fun!!
Cell phones are extremely damaging to childhood development; and, they don't help adults much either. I've often thought that cell phones are "the number of the beast".
Young parents clearly have their hands full.
I do feel sorry for the present generations...0-60....They have no escape from this "fast" world.
I’m 73. Save a place for me.
My sister really suffered under phonics. Or shouldn’t it be spelled, ‘phonix?’ ;)
Glad to hear it worked for your kids, though.
I learned to read the old fashioned way and was reading before Kindergarten. Potty trained at 18 months. I know... TMI! LOL!
My sister ended up with a teaching degree, though after my folks forked out mega-bucks for her private-college education (I paid for mine myself!) she decided that she ‘really didn’t LIKE kids’ in the first place and she never taught past her practicums.
She’s also a Socialist Democrat. Make of that what you will.
Just coming to post this. Wisconsin schools are really, REALLY failing - and our Socialist Democrat Governor just ‘rigged the system’ to fun those public schools AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE for the next 400 years! Gaaaaah!
Are you my MIL’s long lost daughter? That’s how she raised her kids.
She told me when my first son was about 10 months old that I was supposed to be potty training him then. So to try to placate her, I started trying. Sit him on the potty and read to him until he did it, and then praise him when he peed or pooped. It was insanity. I told my husband, “who’s being trained, our kid or me?” What a total waste of time.
Next kid I totally ignored her insinuations that I was a terrible mother. Daughter was potty trained around the 2 year mark. She was too smart for her own good. She asked me why she couldn’t have big girl panties, and I told her it was because she kept wetting her diapers. Turned out that she figured that when she got big girl panties she was ready to wear them. The first day I put them on her, she never had another “accident”. Not one.
Raising kids is a crazy job, but one I loved every minute of, or at least looking back on it, I loved every minute.
I felt like God had given me the biggest job there ever was, even if the “pay” wasn’t much of anything. I still feel that way. What an honor and a privilege to be tasked with raising God’s children. I poured every bit of myself into that job, and I don’t regret it.
No worries about siblings. I have one that’s a bleeding heart liberal. Wouldn’t you know she’s the most unhappy, unhealthy person? Still, I love her, and wish the best for her. I’m sure you feel the same way about your sister/siblings. And this is probably all TMI. Forgiveness, please.
“Raising kids is a crazy job, but one I loved every minute of, or at least looking back on it, I loved every minute.”
So was Army Life! ;)
I had it easy; my step sons were 3, 4 & 5 when I got them; already housebroken...for the most part. I mean, they WERE boys! :)
Instead of “despite the end of the pandemic era” headline should read “because of US deep state imposition of pandemic era lockdowns”
I’m glad there are people like you in the world! :)
100% agree. The effects of locking us down are going to ripple through the world for a very, VERY long time.
But, Deep State got what it wanted. Brandon. *SPIT*
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