Studies: Pandemic Aid Lifted Scores, But Not Enough To Make Up for Lost Learning
Nearly $200 billion in emergency school funding spent during and after the pandemic succeeded in lifting students’ achievement in math.
The Terrible Truth: Current Solutions to COVID Learning Loss Are Doomed to Fail
Most of the programs school districts have implemented to address COVID learning loss are doomed to fail. Despite well-intended and.
- by Margaret Raymond, The 74
- April 24, 2023
Bill would make summer learning camps designed for COVID continue beyond the pandemic
Like many school districts across the country, Elizabethton City Schools entered the 2020/2021 school year with a new hybrid schedule.
- by Sky Arnold
- February 6, 2023
Schools Face ‘Urgency Gap’ on Pandemic Recovery: 5 Takeaways from New Study
New research on post-pandemic student achievement presents a sobering picture, offering a reality check for anyone who might think recovery.
- by Greg Toppo, The 74
- December 5, 2022
Historic Rise in Child Bereavement as COVID, Drugs and Guns Claim Parents’ Lives
It’s been two-and-a-half years since Reid Orlando lost his mother and he continues to feel the sting. His mom, a.
- by Asher Lehrer-Small, The 74
- November 28, 2022
Experts: Dismal NAEP Scores Offer Districts Chance to ‘Pivot’ on Relief Funds
Most school districts adopted their budgets last spring, long before state and national test scores laid out the extent of.
- by Linda Jacobson, the 74
- November 22, 2022
Report finds the pandemic led parents to permanently leave traditional public schools for public charter schools
It’s no secret the COVID-19 pandemic greatly disrupted schools across the nation, but a new report finds evidence those disruptions.
- by Firefly Staff
- September 2, 2022