After wildfires, LA schools can learn from other districts' experiences in helping students: Flexible schedules, #mentalhealth support, and community involvement aid long-term recovery. An education professor explains: https://theconversation.com/what-los-angeles-area-schools-can-learn-from-other-districts-devastated-by-natural-disasters-247777 #LAFires #learningloss
#LearningLoss
Eighth-grade students are averaging their lowest-ever reading scores since the Department of Education began tracking nationwide progress in 1992
#Education #ReadingScores #Students #NAEP #PandemicImpact #LearningLoss #Schools #AchievementGap #Gizmodo
U.S. Students Post Lowest Read...
Children at Risk Education Summit: Educators discuss how pandemic affected learning loss and gaps in enrollment
#Education #Local #News #ChildrenAtRisk #LearningGap #LearningLoss
New book alert! I was in Brussels this Tuesday for the launch of "The pandemic, socioeconomic disadvantage and learning outcomes: Cross-national impact analyses of #education policy reforms", edited by Sylke Schnepf et al.
Together with Rebecca Schneider I wrote a chapter on "The pandemic, socioeconomic disadvantage and #learning outcomes in #Germany" - a thorough summary of pandemic #LearningLoss and subsequent remedial measures.
Read/download it at https://doi.org/10.2760/800165 for free.
Subterfuge and Learning Loss Baloney - Even during the pandemic America's students were learning and not losing anything. https://tultican.com/2024/03/12/subterfuge-and-learning-loss-baloney/ #LearningLoss
“Learning-Loss”, an anti-public school fraud financed by billionaires, justified by phony research from companies like McKinsey, NWEA, CREDO and sold by fake scientists like Eric Hanushek. https://tultican.com/2024/03/12/subterfuge-and-learning-loss-baloney/ #LearningLoss
This article explains how a school could have a 90% attendance but a 30% absenteeism rate. This article mentions a pet peeve of mine. Learning loss. Learning loss data only comes from state assessment data. Students learned different things during the pandemic. Things that are not assessed on a state test. #attendance #k12 #publicschool #publicschools #learningloss #education #teaching #learning
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-the-chronic-absenteeism-puzzle/
How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted girls and gender-expansive youth of color? In a new survey from Dr. Jamelia Nicole Harris at Justice + Joy National Collaborative:
⚪ 77% said their lives had changed moderately or extremely due to the pandemic.
⚪ 36% said they failed a class or their grades dropped.
⚪ 17% said they took over teaching young relatives or children.
Learn more here: ➡️
https://justiceandjoynatl.org/power-in-our-truths-three-quarters-of-gen-z-millennial-young-people-of-color-report-covid-related-mental-health-life-disruptions/
#COVID #COVID19 #Pandemic #Children #Youth #Education #LearningLoss @edutooters
Jose Luis Vilson: Learning Loss and the Lessons Americans Refuse To Learn https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/jose-luis-vilson-learning-loss-and-the-lessons-americans-refuse-to-learn/ #LearningLoss
I have a letter in yesterday's Boston Globe, stressing the importance of focusing on mental health issues as well as academic learning loss.
This was in response to a recent story talking about strategies for addressing pandemic learning loss. #education #mentalhealth #learningloss #youthmentalhealth #Boston
Link to my letter and others on the topic:
Since the pandemic, the number of California students who are chronically absent from school has surged to 1.8 million, says a new study by Thomas Dee at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Rates of chronic absenteeism jumped to 30% in 2021-2022, from 12% in the school year before the pandemic. Chronic absenteeism was defined as missing at least 10% of the school year.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: https://bit.ly/3ZeiAHV
#Education #ChronicAbsentee #Absent #Pandemic #COVID #COVID19 #LearningLoss @edutooters @edutooter
An Experiment to Fight Pandemic-Era Learning Loss Launches in #Richmond
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After intense opposition and skepticism, two elementary #schools opened 20 days early to help #students make up for what they missed during the time of #RemoteLearning.
The first question: Would kids show up in the middle of #summer for extra schooling?
#School #Kids #Teachers #Education #Virginia #Pandemic #COVID #LearningLoss #Parents
"Shifting blame away from the for-profit healthcare system and the government’s response to the coronavirus is part of what makes the learning loss narrative so valuable to politicians who have no interest in challenging existing patterns of wealth and power. It is a narrative meant to distract the public and discipline teachers. Here’s the recipe: 1. Establish that closing schools hurt students using a narrow measure like test scores; 2. Blame closure of schools on teacher unions rather than a deadly pandemic; 3. Demand schools and teachers help students “regain academic ground lost during the pandemic” — and fast; 4. Use post-return-to-normal test scores to argue that teachers and schools are “failing”; 5. Implement “teacher-proof” (top-down, standardized, even scripted) curriculum or, more insidiously, argue for policies that will mean an end to public schools altogether."
#Covid #Pandemic #LearningLoss
https://dianeravitch.net/2023/08/15/rethinking-schools-the-learning-loss-hoax/
(4/5) With long-desired movement on reading reform afoot, we can take a beat to ask: what can be done about declining math scores? Again, something emerged early in COVID that points to a hopeful horizon. A new study with harder data shows the correlation between *music education* and higher math & reading scores. Lead author Martin Burgee conducted the study over ten years. It finally published in December 2020, when few were paying attention: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201130150413.htm #COVID #learningLoss #music
(1/5) Since political operatives are trying to re-write history about school closures being "the worst pandemic policy" my latest newsletter examines the education *improvements* that ironically are coming out of the pandemic. https://tracingcovid.substack.com/p/melodic-lines The first improvement is a long-awaited reform in reading instruction, pushed to a head by parents who eavesdropped on Zoom class. #learningLoss #COVID #COVID19 #misinformation #disinformation
COVID Learning Loss: Missouri Scores Show Dramatic Drop in Student Performance
“I have a hard time with sequences, patterns and spatial reasoning.
At school, my processing issues often left me deeply embarrassed.
During math lessons, I’d feel a kind of desperation as I tried to understand what was being taught before I got called on.
There was never enough time.”
#education #neurodivergent #math #attention #patternrecognition #learningloss
#FactOfTheDay: Child care consumes a large share of family income among those who pay for services—between 8% and 19.3% of median family income per child—according to a U.S. Department of Labor blog.
Learn more: https://blog.dol.gov/2023/01/24/new-childcare-data-shows-prices-are-untenable-for-families
#EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation #Preschool #Kindergarten #LearningLoss #Data #Trends #COVID19 #Pandemic
#FactOfTheDay: Riverside and San Bernardino had preschool or kindergarten enrollment rates lower than 42%, and licensed child care availability lower than 15%, in 2021.
Learn more: https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=10707
#EarlyChildhood #EarlyEducation #Preschool #Kindergarten #LearningLoss #Data #Trends #COVID19 #Pandemic @edutooters
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