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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In the first grade the teacher asked everyone to bring a book from home to read to the class. Her jaw hit the floor when my boy brought in “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, and then read each character in a different voice.
so they only look at pictures on their phones/computers/tablets ?
My grandniece who is 5 works a tablet like it’s part of her body , ask her something and she’ll have an answer is 2 seconds , LOL
Years ago a friend teaching in an urban district who had a student who didn’t know the word “book”. Anyone visiting homes in these areas notices immediately the lack of books of any kind. Many have joined the “post-thinking” point; their TV or smartphone (with feeds controlled by our oligarchs) “thinks” for them, and the regurgitate that as “thoughts” or “opinions”. This has spread far outside the ghetto, too.
We saw it with COVID, now Ukraine.
Many parents DEMAND that teachers give good grades. They aren’t interested in content being delivered and verified. Most people, even here at FR, don’t realize that schools lowered their standards in response to lawsuits that were levied by parents because their child didn’t get easy grades.
Most material posted on the Internet is inferior to that found in books, Internet authors tend to think in terms of links while authors of books tend to organize and word material much better.
She also has Books , remember those
https://www.read21.org/ can teach a child to read in 21 classroom hours.
Like public schools were doing such a bang-up job BEFORE the pandemic.
https://www.read21.org/ can teach a child to read in 21 classroom hours.
Books. Lots of books. I maintain an “end of the world” library.
I guess they’re spending to much time on transsexual story time...maybe instead of learning about diversity and inclusion, they should be more aware of “reading, writing and arithmetic”.
Uneducated people make better democrat voters.
And what about American schools math and English proficiency??? Aren’t we approaching third-world levels of education??
Would this have anything to do with the Asian community being persecuted by the black community???
I can’t remember where I read it, but the author stated “diversity is a cancer to America.” The more I hear about the poor proficiency of American students, and then listen to the Ukrainian kids being interviewed, the more that statement comes to mind.
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