Pandemic impact on education

 School districts have had to make many difficult decisions to prepare for the 2020–2021 school year amid the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Researchers summarize selected findings on teaching and learning in the face of a pandemic through results from surveys administered to nationally representative samples of teachers and principals..

Key Findings

• Most schools are still providing either wholly or partially remote instruction.
• Students are less prepared to participate in grade-level work.
• Teachers are having difficulties contacting students and holding them accountable.
• The pandemic has lowered teacher morale and satisfaction.
• Access to digital devices and the internet continues to be a problem.
• Teachers providing remote instruction are hampered in addressing students’ special learning needs.

Diliberti, M., &  Kaufman, J. (2020). Will this school year be another casualty of the pandemic? RAND.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA168-4.html

summer learning loss study

 The coronavirus pandemic could contribute to between two and fourth months of learning loss, particularly among students in kindergarten through second grade, according to a recent report. Data shows learning loss above the traditional "summer slide" in both reading and math.

Bielinski, J., Brown, R., & Wagner, K. (2020). Covid slide. Illuminate Education/Fastbridge

https://go.fastbridge.org/calculating-covid19-slide-wp-0820?utm_campaign=Back%20to%20School%2FBTS%2FAccelerated%20Learning&utm_source=press%20release&utm_medium=press%20release