2023

A new study suggests that standardized reading tests often fail to reflect what students have actually learned—and mislead educators about what to teach. An increasing number of schools are shifting to a new kind of elementary curriculum—one that focuses...

Analysis of studies from 15 countries finds students lost over one-third of a school year’s worth of learning, on average, due to the pandemic A new review of COVID-era research shows that K–12 students around the world suffered harrowing learning loss...

For all the talk of life getting back to normal, school hasn't been the same in years. Three years since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools across the U.S., students have experienced one disruption after another: a COVID outbreak here, a flood...

A new paper adds to the mounting evidence that school-age children across the globe experienced significant setbacks in their learning progress during the Covid-19 pandemic. Students “lost out on about 35% of a normal school year’s worth of learning” when...

Learning delays and regressions were most severe in developing countries and among children from low-income backgrounds. And students still haven’t caught up. Children experienced learning deficits during the Covid pandemic that amounted to about one...