The New York Times reports that the children are falling behind :
For example, in math, Latino third graders performed 17 percentile points lower in spring 2021 compared with the typical achievement of Latino third graders in the spring of 2019. The decline was 15 percentile points for Black students, compared with similar students in the past, and 14 for Native students, according to the NWEA report.
There's more:
Asian and white students also underachieved compared with the performance of similar students in 2019, but the impact was less severe, at nine percentile points each.
How bad?
Perhaps even more troubling, the students who were most affected by the crisis were already behind their peers before the pandemic, and the added losses have pushed them further back.
Just remember keeping schools closed is for the children according to the teachers unions bosses.
