New report: How the pandemic battered student engagement, attendance
Students are heading back to school this year under a cloud of discouraging test score declines in reading and math, an alarming widening of race- and income-based achievement gaps, and a sluggish pace of academic recovery. We at the Center on Reinventing Public Education are tracking and reporting on test scores, but we’re also keenly […]
Beyond test scores: Broader academic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on American students
Recent state and national achievement exam results, as well as academic progress reports, have underscored how the Covid-19 pandemic and related school closures had a large, negative impact on students’ reading and math development. But there has been less research conducted on how the pandemic affected other academic measures beyond standardized testing, such as attendance, engagement […]
