{"id":589512,"date":"2022-05-18T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/?p=589512"},"modified":"2022-05-19T13:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T17:03:41","slug":"covid-learning-loss-comparable-to-that-inflicted-by-hurricane-katrina-study-finds-math-drops-outpace-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/covid-learning-loss-comparable-to-that-inflicted-by-hurricane-katrina-study-finds-math-drops-outpace-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Learning Loss Comparable to That Inflicted by Hurricane Katrina, Study Finds; Math Drops Outpace Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Learning loss during the pandemic may have exceeded the damage inflicted on New Orleans students by Hurricane Katrina, according to a recently released study of standardized test scores. Setbacks in math achievement exceeded those for reading, and achievement gaps between comparatively rich and poor schools expanded dramatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the United States approaches the end of another school year marked irrevocably by COVID, the paper\u2019s findings are merely the latest to show substantial academic reversals resulting from lengthy school closures, uneven execution of virtual learning, and the effects of countless social and economic upheavals over the last two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n