#  The pandemic set some Texas students back a year in learning 

 





November 23, 2022

 

 

 Texas students in third through eighth grades are lagging in learning compared with pre-pandemic years, per new research conducted by Stanford and Harvard universities.

 **Why it matters:** 92% of parents nationally believe their children are at or above grade level now that in-person learning has resumed, but the research shows that's not true everywhere, Thomas Kane, project co-leader from Harvard University, tells Axios.

- Districts can use the data to figure out how to spend the rest of their federal pandemic aid, which must be allocated by September 2024.

 **The big picture:** Texas students have a learning loss of over five months in math and more than a month in reading, according to the research, called the [Education Recovery Scorecard](https://educationrecoveryscorecard.org/).

- Learning losses could affect life outcomes such as high school graduation, college enrollment, arrests and teen motherhood.

 **Methodology:** The scorecard, which compares states over the 2019-2022 period, adds a layer of comparison to data recently released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress**,** which also found Texas students fell behind, particularly in math.

- State assessments for grades 3-8 were used to analyze proficiency relative to in-state districts.

 **Zoom in:** Dallas ISD and Houston ISD, two of the largest districts in Texas, each lost more than four months of learning in math achievement.

- Irving and Forney are among the districts with more than a year of learning losses in math**.**

 [Continue reading at axios.com](https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2022/11/23/pandemic-learning-loss-texas-student).



 

 

 



 

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