🚨New @caldercenter WP finds positive impacts of summer school on math (but not reading). The math effects are worth celebrating, but they're small relative to the scale of remaining recovery. We need bigger solutions - summer school won't be enough on its own.
Billions of dollars were funneled to school districts across the U.S. to help them make up for learning loss from the pandemic. But new research shows that even with that extra money, school districts are still struggling to close the gaps. https://t.co/YAy7zVvKXA
Takeaway: The scope of our current response is inadequate to address the scale of the crisis. Schools are taking steps in the right direction, but the depth and breadth of the challenges demands a long-term layered approach that extends beyond immediate recovery initiatives.
🚨We're hiring (paid!) summer interns to (remotely!) join the @NWEA research team and work on really cool measurement and education policy research projects. https://t.co/x6ZpavnXg7
Summary: Students are rebounding – due to their own resiliency and the hard work of schools to provide recovery supports – but there is still a long road ahead and it is far too soon to take the foot off the gas. 6/6
New @nwea research out from me and @MeganKuhfeld looking at fall 2022 data shows continued progress towards academic recovery. The gap between current and pre-pandemic test scores continues to shrink across grades and subjects. 1/n https://t.co/1Zws8VFSbz
Rebounding is partly explained by students experiencing less summer slide than usual. Test scores dipped over the summer of 2022, but not as much as in a typical year. 5/n
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