The Covid education gap

[Byrd]

The "covid gap in education" refers to the learning loss and widening achievement gaps that students experienced because of the disruption caused by the pandemic. According to some studies, students are on average four to five months behind in math and reading, and students of color and low-income students are the most affected

(article on conservative website The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4...hool-year/)

While I see concerns on the national basis, I'm not seeing a lot of conversation about it here in Dallas.  In fact, what I see is "well, they're catching up" and I'm not entirely sure I believe that since Texas has a habit of "teaching to the test" rather than actually focusing on the issue. https://texas2036.org/posts/tracking-cov...ning-loss/

There's some interesting talk on Reddit, though, including one about the pandemic even having an impact on college students: https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comm...ing_worse/

So is it a concern where you live?  Is anyone doing anything other than hand-wringing about it?

[DBCowboy]

The "covid gap in education" refers to the learning loss and widening achievement gaps that students experienced because of the disruption caused by the pandemic. According to some studies, students are on average four to five months behind in math and reading, and students of color and low-income students are the most affected

(article on conservative website The Hill: https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4...hool-year/)

While I see concerns on the national basis, I'm not seeing a lot of conversation about it here in Dallas.  In fact, what I see is "well, they're catching up" and I'm not entirely sure I believe that since Texas has a habit of "teaching to the test" rather than actually focusing on the issue. https://texas2036.org/posts/tracking-cov...ning-loss/

There's some interesting talk on Reddit, though, including one about the pandemic even having an impact on college students: https://www.reddit.com/r/Professors/comm...ing_worse/

So is it a concern where you live?  Is anyone doing anything other than hand-wringing about it?

Our son was home-schooled prior to covid, didn't skip a beat during or afterwards.

He's now head and shoulders above his peers.

I know this is anecdotal but society has gotten dumber.

[xpert11]

The genie is out of the bottle concerning public education in New Zealand. Decades of poor education policies, the COVID-19 pandemic and reversing the few gains (charter schools) combined with fibre internet availability are in play. Attendance rates in traditional classrooms have plummeted in recent times.

A small sample of the issues.

https://alwynpoole.substack.com/p/gettin...ung-people

Nor are children receiving an education in the school system.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5040...al-decline

If students in school aren't in a productive learning environment, they are in jail from 9 am - 3 pm during weekdays, outside of the school holidays.  (Emphasis mine).

[Toad of Toad Hall]

Our son was home-schooled prior to covid, didn't skip a beat during or afterwards.

He's now head and shoulders above his peers.

I know this is anecdotal but society has gotten dumber.

Another anecdote, if you’d like, is that as a PE teacher I have observed first hand the radical difference in attention-span/engagement amongst cohorts seperated by the 
2020 divide (ie everyone who started their schooling in 2020 or after versus anyone in schooling when it happened). 
I mean, I’m the guy whose job it is to teach you how to play games and I look back fondly on the days where it was only one child in the class who didn’t want to participate.

[chr0naut]

It is because of their current attitude...

[ArMaP]

My sister is a teacher that had work before and after CoViD, and she didn't notice any difference. From what I have been told (I live near several schools, so there are several teachers living in the area), the only problem was in 2020, when the new school year started everything went back to normal.