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5 Years Later: My Pandemic Predictions on Learning Loss, Disengagement and More

Aldeman: What I got right and wrong about learning losses, disengagement from school and income disparities in which kids got hurt the most

Chad Aldeman
Author: Chad Aldeman
commentary
commentary

The Pandemic Was a Sputnik Moment for Rethinking American Education. We Blew It

Lake & Hill: Now, the nation's schools need to learn from their COVID missteps and take bold, new action to address education’s future.

Robin Lake & Paul Hill
The Big Picture
Assessment
The Big Picture

New NAEP Scores Dash Hope of Post-COVID Learning Recovery

Results from the Nation’s Report Card offer few positive signs, with reading performance slumping even since the heart of the pandemic.

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
early learning
covid learning loss

In the Rush to COVID Recovery, Did We Forget About Our Youngest Learners?

Research finds the country’s youngest elementary school students aren’t catching back up to pre-pandemic levels in reading and math like older kids.

Lauren Camera
commentary
commentary

Developing Ed Tech With a Focus on Students, Teachers and the Research

Liang-Vergara: To recover from COVID learning losses, the nation needs educator and community engagement & federal investment in education R&D.

Chris Liang-Vergara
Author: Chris Liang-Vergara

learning loss

learning loss
brain function

Exclusive: Study Finds COVID Harmed Cognitive Skills of Students — and Teachers

New working paper is believed to be the first to link weaker memory and diminished ‘flexible thinking’ skills to the pandemic’s academic downturn.

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo

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education

COVID Slide: As Half of Students Fail Annual Tests, Pleas For Lawmakers to Act

Tessa Weinberg, Missouri Independent
COVID Policy Briefing

Tracking Schools’ Pandemic Recovery Funds: Mental Health, Tutoring & More

Joshua Parrish
Summer Learning Sprint

Gifted Summer Programs Skew White & Wealthy. Not Baltimore’s — And It’s Free

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
pandemic

Could Polio Outbreak Put Kids at Risk? State Vaccination & Exemption Rates Vary

Laura Fay
Author: Laura Fay
Pandemic

Rausch: 10 Steps Toward Measuring Great Schools During and after the Pandemic

Karega Rausch
Author: Karega Rausch
Pandemic

Kids Catch Up Best With Grade-Level Work — But Keep Getting Easier Assignments

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
Indianapolis

Brown: Students Are Making Modest Learning Gains. That’s Not Good Enough

Brandon Brown
Author: Brandon Brown
CDC

Schools Brace For Monkeypox Outbreak With Little Guidance to Guide Response

Danielle J. Brown, Florida Phoenix
COVID Policy Briefing

CDC’s New School Guidance Scraps Quarantines, Lifts ‘Test to Stay’ Recommendation

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
Louisiana

Louisiana State University Expands Programs to Stem Nursing Shortage

Piper Hutchinson, Louisiana Illuminator
Pandemic

Teens Have Changed Their Higher Ed Plans — Survey Shows They May Never Go Back

John Kristof & Colyn Ritter
Pandemic

New CDC Guidance Could Be Gamechanger on Restrictions as Students Return to School

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Educators’ Poor Morale Matters, Even If They Don’t Quit. Here’s Why

Elizabeth D. Steiner, Heather Schwartz & Melissa Kay Diliberti
The Big Picture

How Norway Cut Student Absences By 25% — And Why The Policy Is No Silver Bullet

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
COVID Policy Briefing

CDC Eyes New School Rules on COVID Testing, Spacing, Quarantines

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
Pandemic

New Data: Despite Progress, a Third of Students Finished Year Below Grade Level

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
California

Educator’s View: How My School’s Care Corps Helps Our Students and Community

Maricela Guerrero
learning loss

Lessons from TFA’s Virtual Tutoring Program in Battling Learning Loss

Elisa Villanueva Beard, Teach For America
Pandemic

For America’s Children, Screen Time is Here to Stay

Cari Spencer
learning loss

122 Teachers Speak: Surviving Student Learning Loss, Behavior Challenges

Marianna McMurdock, Jasmine De Leon & Meghan Gallagher
pandemic

Poll Shows Not All Students & Teachers Are Eager to Go Back to In-Person School

Thomas Arnett
Author: Thomas Arnett
COVID Policy Briefing

Young Children’s Vaccination Rates May Have Already Peaked

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
Pandemic

74 Interview: Seeing the Nuances Behind the Chronic Absenteeism Crisis

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
pandemic

Rural TX Districts Struggling to Attract Teachers are Switching to 4-Day Weeks

Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune
American Rescue Plan

As Districts Spend Relief Funds, Auditors Say ‘Business is Booming’

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Iowa

Iowa District: 5-Year-Old Refused to Wear Mask, Saying ‘My Body, My Choice’

Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch
COVID Policy Briefing

COVID Classroom Recovery: California Has Spent Little to Address Learning Loss

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
Assessment

‘Long Road to Recovery’: Math, Reading Scores Remain Below Pre-Pandemic Levels

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
learning loss

How Summer Camps & Afterschool Programs Can Step Up to Stem Learning Loss

Aaron Dworkin & Tom Rosenberg
absenteeism

Student Voice: Pandemic Attendance Crisis is About More Than COVID

Andre Young
The 74 Interview

Harvard Economist Offers Gloomy Forecast on Reversing Pandemic Learning Loss

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
pandemic

Claiborne & Stockwell: Not Enough Tutors to Go Around? College Students Can Help

Christina Claiborne & Sam Stockwell
college enrollment

Most Students Who Left College During COVID Want to Return — But Many Can’t

Courtney Brown
2020-2021 test scores

Exclusive: GreatSchools to Omit Pandemic School Testing Data From Its Ratings

Orville Jackson
Pandemic

Tennessee Students Rebound to Pre-Pandemic Reading Proficiency

Beth Hawkins
Author: Beth Hawkins
ed tech

Zoom-Based Program Links Young Students With One-on-One Reading Tutors — Right in Their Own Classrooms

Tim Newcomb
Author: Tim Newcomb
Pandemic

Greene: For Students to Get Back to Normal, They Need Support, Not Punishment

Dr. Ross Greene
Author: Dr. Ross Greene
Pandemic

After a Decade of Gains, Latino Students Suffer Outsized Losses Amid Pandemic

Jo Napolitano
Author: Jo Napolitano
4Fams

Adams: Public Funds for Religious Schools? It’s Been Happening in NYC for Years

Alina Adams
Author: Alina Adams
decoding

Teaching Kids to Read — Not Guess. Free Summer Program Launches to Help Parents

Chad Aldeman
Author: Chad Aldeman
Pandemic

How Blue States & Red States Use COVID Relief Funds Differently to Aid Schools

Bella DiMarco & Phyllis W. Jordan
education department

Education Dept’s R&D Arm Faces a Dire Budget Shortfall — Just as We Need It Most

Kumar Garg
COVID Policy Briefing

Study: Masking in School Had Little or No Effect on Student COVID Cases

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
michigan

Short on Teachers, Michigan Schools Try to Grow Their Own

Tracie Mauriello, Chalkbeat Detroit
pandemic

Texas STAAR Results Improve in Math and Reading After Pandemic Dips

Brian Lopez, The Texas Tribune
Pandemic

New Study: Black, Special Ed Students Punished at Greater Rate Through Pandemic

Jo Napolitano
Author: Jo Napolitano
COVID Slide

COVID & College: Indiana Enrollment Declines, as Only 53% of HS Grads Continue

Joshua Parrish
student voice

Mental Health, Teacher Shortages, Uvalde: Students Talk 2022’s Key School Issues

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
assessments

Youngkin Says Report on ‘Honesty Gap’ Points to Decline in Virginia Schools

Graham Moomaw, Virginia Mercury
Pandemic

Pandemic Babies Are Facing Speech & Social Development Delays. 5 Ways to Help

Abigail A. Allen, The Conversation
Michigan

As Mental Health Crisis Rages, Michigan Schools Work to Boost Kids’ Connection

Eleanore Catolico, MindSite News
anxiety

New Ken Burns PBS Documentary Offers Raw Look at the Youth Mental Health Crisis

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
Betsy DeVos

In a Year of ‘Abysmal’ Student Behavior, Ed Dept. Seeks Discipline Overhaul

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Edunomics Lab

New Learning Loss Calculator Estimates Costs of Catching Kids Up In 8K Districts

Marguerite Roza, Katherine Silberstein, Aashish Dhammani & Chad Aldeman
education reform

Fuller: L.A. Offers Lessons for Helping Kids Recover from COVID Learning Loss

Bruce Fuller
The 74 Interview

Paymon Rouhanifard on Boston, Tribalism and the Dangers of COVID ‘Groupthink’

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Smith: Some Clues to What States Will Do When School COVID Funding Runs Out

Aaron Garth Smith
COVID Slide

COVID & Schools: Michigan Aims to Invest $280 Million in Large-Scale Tutoring Plan

Joshua Parrish
Pandemic

WATCH: Teachers Reflect on Leaving Classrooms to Launch Microschools Amid COVID

The 74
COVID Policy Briefing

FDA Recommends COVID Vaccines for Young Kids; 3rd Pfizer Dose May Be Key

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
Pandemic

Adams: What NYC’s New Remote-Only Schools Could Mean for Educational Choice

Alina Adams
Author: Alina Adams
learning loss

Analysis: Many Districts Doing Less This Summer to Make Up for Lost Learning

Lisa Chu & Christine Pitts
student voice

Student Voice: Graduating After a Third COVID-Disrupted School Year

Joshua Oh, Diego Camacho & Kota Babcock
Pandemic

FDA Authorizes Moderna and Pfizer Vaccines for Kids as Young as 6 Months

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
Weaving a Stronger Society — Starting in Our Schools

WATCH: An Inner City Teacher Helps His Community Capture Hope & Promise in Art

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao
learning pods

Replay: Why Teachers Are Leaving Classrooms Amid COVID to Launch Microschools

The 74
The Big Picture

Survey: Pandemic Learning Loss is Teachers’ Top Source of Job-Related Stress

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E20: Does Banning Things Actually Keep Children Safe in Schools?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
100 Top School Districts Adapt to COVID

How 100 Large and Urban Districts Are (and Aren’t) Engaging Stakeholders

Alvin Makori & Bree Dusseault
Louisiana

Suing Schools Over Vaccine Rules? Why One State’s Legislature Passed New Law

JC Canicosa, Louisiana Illuminator
COVID Policy Briefing

Many Kids Who Had COVID Don’t Have Antibodies to Protect Against Omicron

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
covid

NJ Public School Enrollment Dropped 18K Since Start of COVID, State Data Shows

Sophie Nieto-Munoz, New Jersey Monitor
Indiana

No More Regular Summer School: District Sending Indy K-7 Kids to Learning Labs

Wayne D’Orio
children's rights

A New Children’s Rights Movement: Why Now Is the Time to Demand More For Kids

Andrew Buher
Author: Andrew Buher
Keeping it 100

Make Teaching a True Pathway to the Middle Class for Young Latino Teachers

Daniel Velasco
Pandemic

COVID Vaccinations for Toddlers to Start After Juneteenth, White House Predicts

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
COVID Policy Briefing

Vaccines for Children Under 5 Could Be Available as Soon as This Month

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
Weaving a Stronger Society — Starting in Our Schools

Watch: How an Island Teacher Builds Community Bridges Through Her Hawaii School

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao
Florida

Florida’s Alarming Reading Scores: Third-Grade Test Shows Only 1 in 4 Proficient

Danielle J. Brown, Florida Phoenix
Pandemic

New Cleveland Mayor Demands Faster Learning Recovery for Students After Pandemic

Patrick O’Donnell
Author: Patrick O’Donnell
Class Disrupted Podcast

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E19: Are Older Students Fixed in Their Abilities?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
COVID Slide

Idaho to Offer Learning Loss Grants Directly to Parents to Help Kids Rebound

Joshua Parrish
Weaving a Stronger Society — Starting in Our Schools

Amid COVID, Closures & Zoom, a Teacher Fights to Preserve School Relationships

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
Austin

As Tragedy Unfolded, TX House Discussed Troubling State of Student Mental Health

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Does Your School Have a ‘Slander’ Account?

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
Pandemic

Three Pfizer Shots 80% Effective Against Omicron in Toddlers, Trial Data Show

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
Jeff Bezos

A Billionaire’s Gift Expands Reach of ‘Unapologetic’ Oakland Parent’s Group

Greg Toppo
Author: Greg Toppo
The Spy Tech That Followed Kids Home

FTC Targets Ed Tech Companies that ‘Illegally Surveil Children’

Mark Keierleber
Author: Mark Keierleber
Montana

Montana Health Department Applies for Federal Money for Children’s Meals

Keila Szpaller, Daily Montanan
COVID Policy Briefing

Study: Biting, Hitting & Overwhelmed, Young Kids Scarred Most By COVID Lockdowns

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
Pandemic

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt Preparing New Round of School Mask Lawsuits

Rudi Keller, Missouri Independent
Pandemic

Analysis: How Medicaid Can Help Schools Support Students’ Mental Health

Phyllis W. Jordan, Anne Dwyer & Bella DiMarco
The Big Picture

Study: COVID Learning Loss Comparable to That Inflicted by Hurricane Katrina

Kevin Mahnken
Author: Kevin Mahnken
Pandemic

Districts Recommend Masks — But Don’t Require Them — as COVID Counts Rise

Asher Lehrer-Small
Author: Asher Lehrer-Small
Pandemic

Class Disrupted Podcast: 30 Years After the 1st Charter School

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
Pandemic

Head Start, in Limbo Over Mask and Vaccine Mandates, Looks to Congress for Help

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
Pandemic

Grade Inflation ‘Persistent, Systemic’ Even Prior to Pandemic, ACT Study Finds

Linda Jacobson
Author: Linda Jacobson
COVID Policy Briefing

Youth Mental Health: Hundreds of Suicidal Teens in Emergency Rooms Each Night

John Bailey
Author: John Bailey
Pandemic

New Interactive Database Tracks Districts' Federal Relief Fund Spending

Chad Aldeman, Katherine Silberstein & Aashish Dhammani
Pandemic

A Red Carpet Awards Show That Honors Justin Bieber — and Music Teachers Too

Megan McGibney
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