Tag: learning loss

California Students Lose 5 Months Progress in Math Over Pandemic: Study

California students lost nearly half a year’s worth of math progress from 2019 to 2022, according to a recent study measuring pandemic learning loss by researchers at Stanford and Harvard universities. The “Education Recovery Scorecard” study, published in October, used previous compared pre-pandemic academic progress to that made over the pandemic. The study found that…


‘Nation’s Report Card’ Shows Pandemic Learning Loss, Signs of Recovery in Los Angeles Unified

A new report by the U.S. Education Department shows that students in California performed better than other states over the past three years, with the Los Angeles Unified School District making some improvements. But overall, students across the nation are still heavily affected by pandemic learning loss. Eighth and fourth graders in nearly every state…


Teachers Union Boss Goes to Ukraine to ‘Assess the Situation’ as US Children Struggle

After fighting to keep many American public schools closed for almost two years, the president of the nation’s second-largest teachers union has traveled to Ukraine to “assess” the poor remote learning conditions for children there. Randi Weingarten, who leads the 1.7 million member-strong American Federation of Teachers (AFT), announced the trip on Monday in the…


Parents Worry More About Children’s Learning Loss Than COVID-19 Risks: Poll

After two consecutive school years marks by on-and-off school closures and online instructions, most American parents now worry more about their children falling behind academically than potentially getting COVID-19 at school, according to a new survey released Friday. The survey was conducted by Pew Research Center among 2,241 American parents with children in K-12 from…