Covid changed everything.
People lost years of life as schools closed, families celebrated holidays alone, the dead went unmourned at funerals. We stopped learning and socializing. We are still managing the damage from Covid, particularly for the most vulnerable.
Last week, the editors of the New York Times wrote a searing article about the impact of school shutdowns on children. [Insert bitter comment about how the New York Timestook took too long to recognize this fact.]
The school closures that took 50 million children out of classrooms at the start of the pandemic may prove to be the most damaging disruption in the history of American education. It also set student progress in math and reading back by two decades and widened the achievement gap that separates poor and wealthy children.
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” [Insert bitter comment about how the New York Timestook took too long to recognize this fact.]”
You got that right.
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The NYT did more than not recognize learning loss. The NYT told the people pointing it out that they were wrong, it wasn’t happening, and to shut up because anyone saying that just wants to kill grandma.
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