Why are students still so behind post-COVID? Their school attendance remains abysmal; Shorter summer breaks and free tutoring: How some schools are tackling pandemic learning loss, and other C-Virus related stories
Why are students still so behind post-COVID? Their school attendance remains abysmal:
As schools and parents contend with uncomfortable and increasingly unavoidable truths about persistent learning loss, new data out Thursday points to a key source of the problem: Scores of students have in recent years missed so much school that catching up seems nearly impossible.
The U.S. Education Department data, analyzed by Attendance Works and Johns Hopkins University’s Everyone Graduates Center, shows that in the 2021-22 school year, 2 in 3 students attended schools with high or extreme levels of chronic absence. Chronic absence typically refers to missing at least 10% of the school year, and the analysis considers a school’s levels to be high or extreme if at least a fifth of its students are chronically absent.
Overall, roughly 30% of students were chronically absent during the 2021-22 year. It was an era still reeling from the devastation of COVID-19 – quarantines were frequent, health needs were vast and hardship was widespread. —>READ MORE HERE
Shorter summer breaks and free tutoring: How some schools are tackling pandemic learning loss:
Some kids in Houston got just a three-week summer break this year. In Richmond, Virginia, two elementary schools have added 20 days to the academic year. And in Indiana, students across the state have received more than 36,000 hours of tutoring over the past year, at no cost to their families.
Research has long shown that adding quality instruction time can have a significant impact on students’ academic achievement, though it may not always be easy to get students, teachers or parents on board with a longer school year, summer school or after-school tutoring.
But the significant learning loss experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic coupled with a historic federal investment in K-12 education made the timing ripe for some schools to make big changes. Between March 2020 and March 2021, Congress authorized $190 billion in funding for K-12 schools – roughly six times what they receive from the federal government in a normal year.
It’s too early to declare these new programs in Virginia, Texas and Indiana as success stories, but they are showing promising results – and could set the example for some significant changes at America’s schools. —>READ MORE HERE
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