A Nation Again At Risk? Amid COVID Learning Losses, Concerns About Students & Schools
On the 40th anniversary of the 鈥楢 Nation at Risk鈥 report, mounting concerns about how COVID disruptions have left students struggling to catch up.
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Three years ago, a majority of America鈥檚 classrooms remained shuttered, as educators struggled to maintain instruction amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. As more data has been published in recent months about both the depths of the learning losses suffered during 2020 and 2021, and the difficulties now being faced in helping many of those students catch up, questions are mounting about whether this generation of students will forever lag behind their peers from prior decades.
On this 40th anniversary of the influential 鈥淎 Nation At Risk鈥 report (see our special report on those 36 pages that changed American education), we鈥檙e taking a moment to reflect on the new risks posed by COVID learning losses when it comes to today鈥檚 students and recent graduates. Here鈥檚 some of our recent coverage about student performance and learning recovery efforts:
鈥擳he Terrible Truth: Current solutions to COVID learning loss are doomed to fail (Read more)
鈥擬ath Losses: Damage revealed by the Nation鈥檚 Report Card could cost graduates and the economy nearly $1 trillion (Read more)
鈥擲talled Reading Scores: Test results flat for 3rd grade 鈥楥OVID Kids鈥 (Read more)
鈥擝ehind Grade Level: Federal data show 49% of students started last school year behind (Read more)
鈥擳耻迟辞谤颈苍驳: Researcher Matthew Kraft talks about how the right tutoring materials & training can help students make gains (Read more)
鈥擡xtra Class Time: In rare move, New Mexico adds weeks鈥 worth of additional instruction (Read more)
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