This week’s recommendation comes from:
Glenn Nolly
Leadership Fellow
Glenn says, “The pandemic ‘learning loss’ article on NPR clearly states some of the key lesson learned during the pandemic. But what I find most compelling is that schools can do something to mitigate learning loss.”
6 things we’ve learned about how the pandemic disrupted learning
Cory Turner
“We know that there are racial and social and economic injustices that exist in every system … what the pandemic did was just like the pandemic did with everything: It just made it worse.”” – Becky Pringle, head of the National Education Association (NEA)
A collaborative research project among Harvard, the American Institutes for Research, Dartmouth College, and NWEA studied test scores of elementary and middle schoolers. The research compared the academic growth these kids made in math and reading over two years before the pandemic to the growth they made over the past two years during the pandemic. This article and podcast look at the results of the study and a few ways that some schools are trying to address the missed learning.