Per Eric Hanushek, a Stanford University economist, they will earn 5.6% less over the course of their lives than students educated just before the pandemic. Unless things change in a hurry and learning losses are reversed, the country’s current crop of K-12 students will grow up to be less educated, lower-skilled, and less productive adults. Also, 70% of public schools saw increases in students seeking mental health services since the start of the pandemic, 56% of schools experienced an increase in “classroom disruptions from student misconduct,” and there was a 49% increase in “rowdiness outside of the classroom.” public schools reported “stunted behavioral and socioemotional development” among students because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The School Pulse Panel also notes that more than 80% of U.S. The bad news isn’t all about academics, however. The findings from the School Pulse Panel are very similar to the results of a survey compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April 2022. According to the CDC, a survey of nationally representative public schools showed that 49% of students began the 2022-23 school year behind grade level in at least one subject. The percentage is significantly higher compared to a typical pre-pandemic year, in which just over a third of students are behind. entered school in September 2022 below grade level in at least one subject. While Denmark did have closures, it is theorized that the lack of learning loss could be attributed to the country’s “reliable digital infrastructure with Denmark being one of the absolute top-scorers in digital skills, broadband connectivity, and digital public services in Europe.”Īnother recent study by the Institute of Educational Studies’ School Pulse Panel reveals that about half the students in the U.S. Swedish children experienced no learning loss because they were not subjected to mass school closures during the pandemic.
Two countries, Sweden and Denmark, managed to avoid the upheaval. One of the studies included in the analysis found that the average public school student in third grade through eighth grade lost half a year of math learning and a quarter of a year in reading. The learning progress of school-aged children slowed substantially during the pandemic and overall, students lost about 35%, of a school year’s worth of learning. The analysis finds the losses are larger in math than in reading and in middle-income countries relative to high-income countries.
Learning deficits are particularly large among children from low socio-economic backgrounds.” A meta-analysis of 42 studies across 15 countries assessed the magnitude of learning deficits during the pandemic, and finds “a substantial overall learning deficit…which arose early in the pandemic and persists over time. Yet more research, released in January, extends the grim scenario. Study after study and a mass of anecdotal evidence show the harm done by the forced lockdowns. There has been nothing but awful news about the unnecessary Covid-related shutdown of American schools. The Covid Lockdown Disaster: Three Years Later Beginning in March 2020, many bad decisions were made that will impact untold numbers of young people for the rest of their lives.
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