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Road to COVID Recovery
Road to Recovery: New Publication
Summer School As a Learning Loss Recovery Strategy After COVID-19:Evidence from Summer 2022
Researchers assess summer school as a strategy for COVID-19 learning recovery by tracking the academic progress of students who attended summer school in 2022 across eight districts serving 400,000 students.
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About the Project
In the wake of instructional challenges faced over the past two school years, districts across the country are currently making important decisions about which interventions and strategies to implement to aid with COVID recovery. Understanding which interventions work best for students, and how to best implement them, is critical as we collectively move forward. Researchers from CEPR have partnered with colleagues at CALDER at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and NWEA to uncover the impact of the pandemic on learning loss and work with a coalition of districts across the country to help determine which COVID recovery interventions are working (or not working) and why. The research group aims to maximize the potential of this research to practically inform each district’s recovery efforts, as well as offer insights to the larger field.
The Consequences of Remote and Hybrid Instruction During the Pandemic
Using testing data from 2.1 million students in 10,000 schools in 49 states (plus D.C.), we investigate the role of remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty. We find that remote instruction was a primary driver.
The Challenges of Implementing Academic COVID Recovery Interventions: Evidence from the Road to Recovery Project
Researchers examine academic recovery in 12 mid- to large-sized school districts across 10 states during the 2021–22 school year. Findings highlight the challenges that recovery efforts faced during the 2021–22 school year.