Another sign of how the COVID pandemic has had an impact not only on the “now” but on the “future.”
This week’s report from the U.S. Department of Education is among the latest about the long-term effects of what we have been going through since March of 2020.
The report says test scores in the nation’s schools show the worst drop in math and reading scores in decades. The results released so far involve just fourth graders, mostly nine-year-old kids.
But the report suggests that similar test score results will be found in other grades as well.
According to the report in the Wall Street Journal, “experts are saying it could take a generation for some scores to rebound. As a professor of sociology and education puts it…
I don’t think we can expect to see these 9-year-olds catch up by the time they leave high school,” he said, referring to the lower-performing students. “This is not something that is going to disappear quickly.”
For teachers and parents of these kids, it means recognizing the impact it has had on them and supporting and helping them even more.
If that happens, the prognosis for these kids of the COVID pandemic generation will be a good one.
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