Kate Destler is an associate professor at Western Washington University.
Public schooling has always been politically fraught, but current disagreements over issues related to race, sexuality, gender, and Covid-19 have reached a tipping point.
Administrators wanted to tackle learning loss. Other needs came first.
In this report, we update our ongoing research on five school systems to reveal the academic, social, and political challenges posed by the pandemic and what system leaders and their staff are doing to address student learning loss.
Headed into 2022-23, school administrators are going to have to pursue new strategies to make up for learning loss.
This report complements our latest fall 2021 survey research from the American School District Panel with in-depth interviews of leaders on the ground in five school systems.
