RT @readingby3rd: Coming up on 10/8 #LearningTuesdays will explore what's next in the ongoing quest for educational recovery w/ @NWEA @chie….

Excellent resource alert! Check out this brief on accelerating academic recovery from @ayeshashim and @emily_r_morton.

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Reading the full research report here: #EducationResearch #PandemicRecovery #EquityInEducation.

Takeaway: The scope of our current response is inadequate to address the scale of the crisis. Schools are taking steps in the right direction, but the depth and breadth of the challenges demands a long-term layered approach that extends beyond immediate recovery initiatives.

Widened inequities: Marginalized students, who were hardest hit by the pandemic, have not experienced additional catch-up and remain furthest from recovery. This highlights the urgent need provide targeted support for historically underserved students.

Time is of the essence: To close the remaining achievement gaps, the typical student will require the equivalent of 4.1 months of additional schooling in reading and 4.5 in month. This cannot be compressed into a single year or short-term intervention.

Widening gap: Below-average gains in 2022-23 resulted in an increase in the gap between current test scores and prepandemic levels.

Lagging progress: Analysis of spring 2023 achievement data suggests that progress towards recovery has stalled. Gains in 2022-23 lagged prepandemic trends in most grades, indicating that the pandemic’s harm is compounding and impeding student progress even three years later.

New @nwea research out today from @megankuhfeld and me with concerning findings on the state of pandemic recovery.

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Summary: Students are rebounding – due to their own resiliency and the hard work of schools to provide recovery supports – but there is still a long road ahead and it is far too soon to take the foot off the gas. 6/6.

Rebounding is partly explained by students experiencing less summer slide than usual. Test scores dipped over the summer of 2022, but not as much as in a typical year. 5/n

There’s no good age to have school turned upside down by a pandemic, but it was particularly detrimental for the youngest students’ reading development: current 3rd graders (who were in kindergarten in Mar. 2020) show the largest impact and the least improvement in reading. 4/n.

Remaining achievement gaps are still sizeable and full recovery is several years out, especially for the youngest and oldest students we studied. 3/n

Math gaps remain larger than reading but are also shrinking more quickly because math improvements happened during the school year and the summer, but reading improvements mostly happened in the summer. 2/n

New @nwea research out from me and @MeganKuhfeld looking at fall 2022 data shows continued progress towards academic recovery. The gap between current and pre-pandemic test scores continues to shrink across grades and subjects. 1/n

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Take-away: kids that were already struggling the most before the pandemic have been harder hit and have more unfinished learning. Instructional resources that meet a wider range of learning needs and support lowest achieving students are critical.