For a time, it appeared as if academic recovery from covid was underway. Now, new research shows that many students are actually sinking even deeper.
The research is based on tests from last winter and spring 2024, four years after schools abruptly went online — and comes just as billions of dollars in federal covid relief money for schools runs out.
“At the end of 2021-22, we optimistically concluded that the worst was behind us and that recovery had begun,” concluded a paper released Tuesday by NWEA, a testing company that works in more than 9,000 U.S. school systems. “Unfortunately, data from the past two school years no longer supports this conclusion.”
Read more at the Washington Post.