The Maryland State Department of Education released detailed results Tuesday on how some students in the state’s 24 public school systems fared on the latest standardized tests. Broader results from each school system were released last month from the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) tests students took during the 2002-23 school year. The latest data […]
The COVID-19 public health emergency officially ended this spring. Unfortunately, the educational emergency coming out of the pandemic is far from over. According to the latest research from my colleagues at NWEA, COVID’s impacts continue to reverberate through the American school system. Researchers Karyn Lewis and Megan Kuhfeld analyzed test score data from approximately 6.7 […]
Republicans and Democrats agree that pandemic-related school closures contributed to an academic crisis — what one witness during a Wednesday Congressional hearing called a “generational tragedy.” But debate over the necessity of the extended shutdown and ways to help students recover still breaks down along partisan lines. Members of the House’s GOP majority and their […]
Three years ago, the nation’s schools received the first installment in what would become the largest infusion ever of federal funds for education — $190 billion to not only safeguard against COVID, but reverse the academic crisis that followed. Evidence of the damage from a year of remote learning was inescapable: major setbacks in reading […]