Giving Compass' Take:
- Linda Jacobson reports that new research estimates that undoing the learning loss caused by the COVID-19 pandemic will cost $700 billion.
- How can you support efforts to address learning loss in the communities that were most impacted?
- Learn about scaling tutoring interventions aimed at curbing learning loss.
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Schools have received almost $190 billion for pandemic recovery, but that falls far short of the $700 billion it will take to erase the damage to learning caused by COVID, according to a new study.
And the way the government has distributed the funds — through a formula that targets high-poverty schools — left some communities hit hard by the pandemic with insufficient funding to offset learning declines, wrote Kenneth Shores of the University of Delaware and Matthew Steinberg of George Mason University in Virginia in a paper released Tuesday by the American Educational Research Association.
The researchers push for greater accountability ...
Read the full article about pandemic learning loss by Linda Jacobson at The 74.