| Children are heading back to school with the academic cost of the pandemic now being laid bare. Tumbling test scores reveal how much learning was not absorbed by students driven to virtual schooling when their classrooms were closed overnight, often staying shut for over a year. As school buildings finally reopen to in-person learning across the country, teachers and administrators are looking at how to get back on track. Many predicted some kind of “Covid slide” mimicking the annual “summer slide” seen when students are out of the classroom, but the new results show how bad it is. “We did see some of those projections come true. And in fact, some of what we saw in the data was even more of an impact than we anticipated,” said Brooke Mabry, strategic content design manager of the NWEA non-profit education organization. |
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