#  Askwith Education Forum Centers Pandemic Recovery Success and the Road Ahead 

 





*A panel of superintendents from across the U.S. joined CEPR leaders to discuss new data and share successes in navigating post-COVID challenges*



 

May 02, 2025

 

 

 Ryan Nagelhout 

Key insights and ideas about pandemic recovery in the American education system were the focus of the latest Askwith Education Forum on Wednesday evening.  
  
Led by [Professor Thomas Kane](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/thomas-kane), faculty director of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR), the forum offered a glimpse at the ongoing challenges of COVID-19 pandemic learning loss and highlighted the successes some school districts have had in overcoming the disruption and crisis that followed.

“I’m sure many folks here tonight are sick of hearing about pandemic learning loss,” said Kane. “Tonight, I promise that by the end of my talk I will have torn off the rearview mirror and just focus on the road ahead and the things that we need to do next.”

The data presented during “From Recovery to Reform: The Education Recovery Scorecard” came from the [Education Recovery Scorecard](https://educationrecoveryscorecard.org/) (ERS), a joint project of HGSE and The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University which takes data from 43 states to measure math and reading abilities.

[Key findings](https://educationrecoveryscorecard.org/media-resources/) from the 2025 version of the ERS highlighted the importance of a common “yardstick” to measure these students as some states shift and “obfuscate” their standards, as well as ways to focus more on long-term issues such as chronic absenteeism.

*Continue reading at* [gse.harvard.edu](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/askwith-education-forum/25/05/askwith-education-forum-centers-pandemic-recovery-success)



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ COVID-19 Impact ](/focus-areas/covid-19-impact)
- [ Education Recovery Scorecard ](/projects/education-recovery-scorecard)
- [ 2025 ](/year/2025)
 
 

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