Evidence Of Catastrophic Learning Loss From School Lockdowns Piles Up

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Evidence Of Catastrophic Learning Loss From School Lockdowns Piles Up

BY: CHRISTOPHER JACOBS
JUNE 28, 2023

A new report documents that closing schools for months on end due to Covid scarred children’s learning — quite possibly for life.

In one sense, the recent press release from the Department of Education featuring the latest results from national achievement tests barely classifies as “news.” But that fact makes the report no less important because it further confirms what other studies in the past several years have revealed: Closing schools for months on end due to Covid scarred children’s learning — quite possibly for life.

This report analyzed outcomes for 13-year-olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress — the “Nation’s Report Card.” And as with national tests for fourth and eighth graders, the results of which were released last September, students showed a dramatic drop in their aptitude in reading and mathematics.

Troubling Trend
The recent release reflects scores from this fall’s NAEP long-term trend assessment designed to examine how student performance evolves over time. While working to measure long-term trends, this test also quantified a short-term drop in achievement as test scores plummeted by a statistically significant four points in reading and nine points in math compared to pre-pandemic levels.

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https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/28/evidence-continues-to-pile-up-of-catastrophic-learning-loss-from-school-lockdowns/

[PeteS in CA]

A couple of decades ago, when we were homeschooling - and even earlier - I used to joke about literate people able to do math becoming an elite-of-the-capable. It was supposed to be a JOKE!!! Not a prophecy.

More to the point, maybe, Covid shutdown school-at-home showed students and parents a couple of things. Their lives didn't end, and what schools were actually teaching.

Parents and students who see little or no value in education disappeared from schools, relying on some combination of crime and gooberment social programs to get them through life.

Many parents who saw the @#$% their kids were being taught and that they could survive without PS realized they could figure out how to afford private school tuition or to homeschool.

And many parents concluded PS wasn't THAT bad and sent their kids back to PS, hoping to rely on supplementation and/or efforts to reform/improve PSs ... or just went back to their pre-Covid "normal".

[Kamaji]

A couple of decades ago, when we were homeschooling - and even earlier - I used to joke about literate people able to do math becoming an elite-of-the-capable. It was supposed to be a JOKE!!! Not a prophecy.

More to the point, maybe, Covid shutdown school-at-home showed students and parents a couple of things. Their lives didn't end, and what schools were actually teaching.

Parents and students who see little or no value in education disappeared from schools, relying on some combination of crime and gooberment social programs to get them through life.

Many parents who saw the @#$% their kids were being taught and that they could survive without PS realized they could figure out how to afford private school tuition or to homeschool.

And many parents concluded PS wasn't THAT bad and sent their kids back to PS, hoping to rely on supplementation and/or efforts to reform/improve PSs ... or just went back to their pre-Covid "normal".