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Black students are among those who have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 school closures.JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images/Tetra images RF
Data has continuously shown that Black and Hispanic communities have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic which also applies to minority students education.
After reviewing fall semester test scores from 4.4 million public school students in grades 3-8, a study from academic non-profit NWEA found that a majority of students scored at pre-pandemic levels in reading, but not minority or poor students. Instead, these group saw small declines, including in Houston.
The COVID Slide: Inequality And Pandemic Learning Loss
Emily Veloza, left, and her daughter Olivia, right, a sixth-grader in Chelsea, Mass.
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Pandemic Learning Loss
One of the many heartbreaks of the pandemic has been the way many tired and overworked parents have to watch their children fall behind academically.
Emily Veloza has witnessed the so-called COVID slide firsthand. Her daughter Olivia was a middle-of-the-road student who used to be generally enthusiastic about school. Since the pandemic, her grades and her motivation have slipped. She hates it, Veloza said. She absolutely hates school.
The teacher moves faster than she did in regular classes, Veloza said, and her daughter spends more time working independently or in small groups of students. Veloza recently learned that her daughter had not turned in a single science assignment this fall, even though she attends a science academy in Chelsea north of Boston. It was frustrating.
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