A detailed look at pandemic learning loss nationwide and the various efforts to recover from it has found there has been some improvement but only about a third of what was lost. The document published this month is called the Education Recovery Scorecard and was put together by researchers at Stanford and Harvard. Here’s the overall summary of what the research found:
In this report, we use test score results from roughly 8,000 school districts in 30 states to measure the extent to which test scores changed from Spring 2019 to Spring 2022 and from Spring 2022 to Spring 2023…
Between 2019 and 2022, the average student in the 30 states lost 0.53 grade levels in math achievement and 0.31 grade levels in reading. In other words, during the pandemic, students missed out on half of a year’s typical learning in math and a third of a year in reading. Between 2022 and 2023, students…
