The devastating impact of pandemic-era policies on kids’ educations is too great to ignore, although school districts are doing everything they can to hide it by lowering standards and dropping tests altogether.
The New York Times’ Editorial Board member Brent Staples has a short piece on their blog The Point, that touches on this point: time is running out to do anything about the disaster, if there ever was any time available to reverse the damage in the first place.
The New York times perpetuated school closure with inaccurate articles about risk to kids and inaccurate claims that closure protected adults. Now the paper is full of stories about how bad a decision it was. Why not an apology? pic.twitter.com/dnVHYbbXUx
— Vinay Prasad MD MPH (@VPrasadMDMPH) February 1, 2024
Staples’ short acknowledgment of the problem is mildly refreshing, but as Dr. Prasad points out,…
