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In reply to the discussion: What the Data Says About Pandemic School Closures, Four Years Later [View all]ProfessorGAC
(65,297 posts)...at almost all the schools I go to, at least in science & math.
At a few schools, the test scores are trending up but still slightly behind the pre-COVID numbers, but most are at parity.
It did take at least 2 years, in some districts 3.
Since I subbed through all that, I support the first comment on the thread that the schools simply weren't ready to execute on this.
One thing worth noting is that with schools being close here from mid-March to a week or 2 after Labor Day (in some cases later) achievement would be 12 to 14 weeks behind because there was no school at all. That's over 30% of a school year, so the baseline is not zero.
Since I have no exposure to 100% online districts, I'd have to say that this study describes my experience pretty well, other than the fact that I wouldn't consider any of the districts still needing further catch-up.
My one quibble is that it is NOT generally accepted that closing schools did little to stop the spread.
There are contradictory studies available online, one of the most recent by Oxford, which suggests it definitely did help, but perhaps not enough to offset the educational & social impact they had.
There is much debate on that issue, and had they not closed the schools & spread did accelerate it would have been seen a disastrous decision. This report could have left out the "not helping to stop soread" commentary.