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Compare learning loss in districts across the country and gain insights into how remote learning, federal funds, and other factors impacted students during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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February 11, 2025
Most US kids aren’t gaining fast enough in reading and math. These schools are different
"The average American student remains half a grade level behind pre-pandemic levels of achievement in both reading and math."
February 11, 2025
Covid Learning Losses
"This morning, a group of academic researchers released their latest report card on pandemic learning loss, and it shows a disappointingly slow recovery in …"
February 11, 2025
A deep dive on U.S. reading and math scores, and what to do about them
"U.S. students were still nearly half a grade level behind in both math and reading in the spring of 2024, compared with achievement levels before the pandemic. …"
June 26, 2024
Burst in covid spending helped students recover, researchers find
"But despite $190 billion sent to K-12 schools, academic achievement lagged behind pre-pandemic levels."
June 26, 2024
Schools Got a Record $190 Billion in Pandemic Aid. Did It Work?
"Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly."
June 26, 2024
Studies: Pandemic Aid Lifted Scores, But Not Enough To Make Up for Lost Learning
"Two studies independently point to small improvements in student performance due to federal funds. But the authors question if money was 'well spent.'"
June 26, 2024
Here’s What $200 Billion in Covid Money Did for Students
"Federal Covid aid for schools improved test scores, but the impact was modest and many students remain behind, new research finds."
June 26, 2024
What the Historic Infusion of Federal Pandemic Aid Did for Schools
"Two new analyses of student-achievement data finds some benefits—but also deep inequities—for districts receiving federal recovery money."
February 9, 2024
K-12 students learned a lot last year, but they're still missing too much school
"It's going to take aggressive interventions to repair the pandemic's destructive impact on kids' schooling. That's the takeaway of two big new studies that look …"
February 2, 2024
Academic inequality grows amid recovery from pandemic learning loss
"Academic gaps between students from low-income backgrounds and their more affluent peers have widened, even as American students as a whole are making a …"
February 2, 2024
Learning Recovery Efforts Worked. New Data Show Why States Must Not Let Up
"Student test scores are on a path to recovery nearly four years after the pandemic wreaked havoc on K-12 academics, extensive new data analyzed and released by …"
February 1, 2024
Recovery in math, reading scores is underway — but slowly
"The deep academic regression American students suffered during the coronavirus pandemic has at last turned a corner, new data show, as scores in reading and …"
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