The Education Recovery Scorecard provides the first opportunity to compare learning loss at the district level across the country, providing opportunities to further understand how time remote, federal dollars expenditure, and other factors impacted students during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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One of the things we found is that even within a district, there is variability. School districts are the first line of action to help children catch up. The better they know about the patterns of learning loss, the more they’re going to be able to target their resources effectively to reduce educational inequality of opportunity and help children and communities thrive.
Sean Reardon
Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education“The pandemic was like a band of tornadoes that swept across the country,” said CEPR Faculty Director Thomas J. Kane. “Some communities were left relatively untouched, while neighboring schools were devastated. The Education Recovery Scorecard is the first high-resolution map of the tornadoes’ path to help local leaders see the magnitude of the damage and guide local recovery efforts.”
Thomas Kane
Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and EconomicsMedia Resources
Change In Average Math Scores
Change In Average Reading Scores
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For more information or an answer to a specific question regarding the data, please submit your questions through the form to Lindsay Blauvelt at the Center for Education Policy Research.
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