#  Congress debates causes of COVID-19 learning loss and how to catch kids up 

 





August 03, 2023

 

 

 *WASHINGTON (TND) — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill held a congressional [hearing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mvzjon8izu) this week to take an in-depth look at COVID-19 learning losses and the impact of government decisions on the decline.*

 "In only a matter of two years a generation of progress was lost," said Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla.

 The Nation's Report Card [shows](https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/highlights/ltt/2023/) test outcomes are the lowest in decades.

 "Multiple factors drove these losses but chief among them, extended school closures. a factor policy makers had control over," said Dr. Nat Malkus, a senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute.

 "The great irony of COVID is how a majority of parents so easily predicted online education and school closures would be detrimental for students and how so many bureaucratic education experts with all the research power in the world took years to reach the same conclusion," criticized Bean.

 During the hearing Democrats said leaders made the best decisions they could with limited information and scarce resources communities had at the time.

 "School leaders did not take this decision lightly," said Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore.

 Harvard education and economics professor Thomas Kane co-led[ a study](https://educationrecoveryscorecard.org/) analyzing pandemic era learning losses at the district level. The results show stark differences in loss from district to district.

 "What these results say is not everybody’s in the same boat," said Kane.

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