#  Summer Programs Can Help Kids Catch Up After COVID 

 





June 08, 2023

 

 

 *New research shows students will require ongoing help outside regular school time in hardest-hit areas*

 It is often said that kids are resilient, but [new research](/file_url/2379) reveals why nobody can assume that students will automatically bounce back from missed learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 “Teaching and learning is a sequential process and each step in that process takes a certain amount of time,” explains Harvard economist [Thomas Kane](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/thomas-kane), “so when we have disrupted it, if you're not providing more time within each year, it's really hard to generate much more learning per year than you were generating before.”

 Kane and researchers with the [Center for Education Policy Research](/), where he is faculty director, and Stanford University’s [Sean Reardon](https://cepa.stanford.edu/sean-reardon) with the [Educational Opportunity Project](https://edopportunity.org/), have now scrutinized student math and reading test scores in grades 3–8, in 7,800 school districts in 40 states and Washington, D.C., between 2019 and 2022.

 Read more at [gse.harvard.edu.](https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/23/06/summer-programs-can-help-kids-catch-after-covid)



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ COVID-19 Impact ](/focus-areas/covid-19-impact)
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