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.
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Historically, the primary obstacle to a socialist takeover is the Middle Class. Upward mobility, starting a new business, making a better life than your parents, all go against socialism as an ideal. We Deplorables are Socialisms natural enemies.
Kill the middle class, and you pave the way to Socialism.
Closing schools, locking down small businesses only, were to kill the middle class. Generate more wealth for the biggest companies—in bed with Democrats. Put midle class former workers on welfare, begging for scraps. Government healthcare, with social scores and vaccine passports. Bankrupt and control the Deplorables.
Hello, socialism.
Well said.
That’s alright. After Biden they won’t have to read because there will be no jobs.
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