Posted on 12/01/2020 5:37:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When the Covid-19 pandemic forced the closure of most U.S. schools last spring, students were thrown into new and unfamiliar ways of learning. Special education students and children learning English lost support that their schools struggled to provide online. Many students had no access to computers or internet and were completely cut off from their teachers.
The true toll these disruptions have taken on student learning won’t be known for months or years, but new reports from national education-testing organizations have begun to offer an early look at that impact.
The latest is a report from NWEA, formerly the Northwest Evaluation Association, which analyzed the results of tests given to nearly 4.4 million U.S. students in grades three through eight this fall and found that most fell short in math, scoring an average of 5 to 10 percentile points behind students who took the same test last year.
While a majority of students did better than expected in reading — scoring at levels similar to typical nonpandemic years — this wasn’t true for Black and Hispanic students and those who attend high-poverty schools. Those groups of students saw slight declines, suggesting the pandemic has exacerbated long-standing educational disparities, possibly setting children who were already behind their white and more affluent peers even further behind.
“It's a reason for concern and it’s a reason to really focus our attention on helping catch kids up,” said Megan Kuhfeld.
Kuhfeld and her colleagues analyzed scores from NWEA’s MAP Growth assessments, which thousands of U.S. schools give to students multiple times a year to track their progress in math and reading. They found evidence that pandemic-related school closures have robbed some vulnerable students of important skills that could hamper their progress unless their parents and teachers act quickly to help them catch up.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
No kidding?!? It’s almost like they planned it that way. That’s weird. (Sarc)
Earth to be destroyed by comet tomorrow
Women and minorities hardest hit
No big deal!
Math is RACIST anyway!
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What color are poor kids? I keep hearing this.
Perfect! It makes them ideal Democrats.
“What color are poor kids? I keep hearing this.”
They ain’t white! Just ask Joe when he was talking about “poor kids and white kids”.
“When Covid-19 closed schools, Black, Hispanic and poor kids took biggest hit in math, reading”
When the schools re-open, they’ll take an even bigger hit. I feel bad for them, since their parents (generally) don’t have the resources to get them correctly taught reading (phonics and phonics only) and math (no calculators, at all).
But it’s a lost cause...
And the highest loss of jobs caused by COVID is in the lowest income groups.
Yes, it's as if they wanted to create a mass of desperate people, forever dependent on the state for handouts in order to survive.
Is there a secret pact between Whites and Asians? (I lost my last White Privilege news letter)
I know us White Devils are racist, so why aren’t we holding back Asians?
Joe should come to Kentucky.
Nothing is a surprise here. Performance in school is contingent on the parent’s level of education and ability to help, guide, push, demand and teach at home. When a kid doesn’t have that at home and doesn’t have face to face instruction from a teacher, then the kid’s learning suffers. It’s the same reason why blacks and Hispanics don’t perform well without the China Plague. Additionally, if you were to evaluate inner-city teachers’ educations you would understand why inner-city schools perform so poorly. A lot of those teachers are functionally illiterate. After all, they have degrees in education. You can’t get much more watered-down than that.
Exactly.
Good post.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. raised eyebrows on Thursday during a speech in Iowa when he said that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids,” an apparent gaffe for a Democratic presidential candidate whose record on race has come under intense scrutiny during the primary.
Mr. Biden was speaking on education and the need to challenge students at a town hall hosted by the Asian & Latino Coalition in Des Moines when he made the remark, and then quickly sought to recover from it.
“We should challenge students in these schools,” Mr. Biden said. “We have this notion that somehow if you’re poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.” ...”
World Ends Tomorrow!
Women and Minorities Hardest Hit
2020 Democratic frontrunner, Joe Biden, answering a debate question about his record on race. This is an actual quote...
Biden: Social workers help parents deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t want to help, they don’t know what to play the radio, make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the — make sure that kids hear words, a kid coming from a very poor school — a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time we get there.
Moderator: Thank you, Mr. Vice President
-—Zack Beauchamp, vox com, Sept 12, 2019
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Then Democratic nominee for president Joe Biden at a campaign event in Tampa, Fla. on Tuesday [Sept 15, 2020]:
“Cause if you could take care, if you were a quartermaster, you can sure in hell take care runnin’ a, you know, a department store, uh, thing, you know, where, in the second floor of the ladies department or whatever,... you know what I mean?”
-—Ian Schwartz, Real Clear Politics, Sept 15, 2020
Yes, but this article says, “black, Hispanic, and poor kids”.
LOL
Rochester NY....You can look up the demographics. High school graduation hovers around 50%...It’s been lower. Pretty disgusting.
Now it’s time for a massive education spending blowout. Give the Dems credit they know how to benefit from a self created crisis and benefit for fixing the crisis they created while pegging a loss on the Republicans. They math is astounding. 2 wins for the Progs and two losses for the pubbies. That puts them up by four.
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