“It’s easy to see why the State Education Department stalled on releasing the latest English and math test scores for grades 3-8,”
“Full disclosure; I’m a retired non union public-school teacher. I would like to point out that the students tested lost two years of in-person school because of the Wuhan closures. Test scores and general knowledge are much lower in that group because of it. This is not just in big city unionized schools but pretty much across the board.æ
A fair comment.
I think I have seen reports that a lot of students in schools (mostly government schools) that were shut down did not fare well. We have family members whose children go to a private school which remained open all through the Wuhan panic. There were reportedly no problems with children falling behind there.