[BostonCard]

I agree and continue to be a strong advocate for closing pretty much everything but schools.  I did listen to this marketplace segment on my daily walk:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus...slows-down

The good news is that distance learning hasn't seemed to affect reading scores too much.  The bad news is that math assessments are about 5 - 10 percentage points behind where the class ahead was when measured in 2019.

Tarasawa tells NPR that with this method of comparison, the results in reading were "relatively optimistic" because "kids on average are performing similarly to how [other children] did pre-pandemic." In math, the current pandemic class of students performed about 5 to 10 percentile points lower than the pre-pandemic comparison group — what Tarasawa describes as a "moderate" drop.

I take it that concerns were that it could have been much worse, but still, it is clear that the pandemic is affecting learning.

BC

[BostonCard]

I agree and continue to be a strong advocate for closing pretty much everything but schools.  I did listen to this marketplace segment on my daily walk:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus...slows-down

The good news is that distance learning hasn't seemed to affect reading scores too much.  The bad news is that math assessments are about 5 - 10 percentage points behind where the class ahead was when measured in 2019.

Tarasawa tells NPR that with this method of comparison, the results in reading were "relatively optimistic" because "kids on average are performing similarly to how [other children] did pre-pandemic." In math, the current pandemic class of students performed about 5 to 10 percentile points lower than the pre-pandemic comparison group — what Tarasawa describes as a "moderate" drop.

I take it that concerns were that it could have been much worse, but still, it is clear that the pandemic is affecting learning.

BC