Events2Join

Most K|12 parents say COVID's first year took educational toll on kids


Most K-12 parents say COVID's first year took educational toll on kids

About six-in-ten (61%) say the first year of the pandemic had a negative effect on their children's education. Just 7% say it had a positive effect.

K-12 Parents: First Year of Pandemic Harmed Children's Education ...

More than half of U.S. parents believed that the first year of the pandemic had shown a negative impact on their child's education.

Massive learning setbacks show COVID's sweeping toll on kids

The COVID-19 pandemic that shuttered classrooms set back learning in some U.S. school systems by more than a year, with children in ...

K-12 students learned a lot last year, but they're still missing ... - NPR

From spring 2022 to spring 2023, students made important learning gains, making up for about one-third of the learning they had missed in math ...

The pandemic has had devastating impacts on learning. What will it ...

In addition to surging COVID-19 cases at the end of 2021, schools have faced severe staff shortages, high rates of absenteeism and quarantines, ...

Parents Don't Understand How Far Behind Their Kids Are in School

Math, reading and history scores from the past three years show that students learned far less during the pandemic than was typical in previous ...

More than 80 Percent of U.S. Public Schools Report Pandemic Has ...

Schools across the country have seen a rise in chronic absenteeism. Compared to a typical school year prior to the start of the COVID-19 ...

Parents think their kids are doing well in school. More often than not ...

Four years after the onset of COVID-19, schools are still struggling to catch kids up. They're also struggling to get young people to show up.

In the Rush to COVID Recovery, Did We Forget About Our Youngest ...

Research finds the country's youngest elementary school students aren't catching back up to pre-pandemic levels in reading and math like older kids.

COVID-19 may have impacted our children's learning progress in ...

School-aged children faced significant learning loss during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, data shows.

COVID-19 and education: The lingering effects of unfinished learning

Our analysis shows that the impact of the pandemic on K–12 student learning was significant, leaving students on average five months behind in mathematics and ...

6 new findings about learning loss during the pandemic - NPR

Most schools had little to no experience with remote instruction when the pandemic began; they lacked teacher training, appropriate software, ...

Students Lost One-Third of a School Year to Pandemic, Study Finds

Children experienced learning deficits during the Covid pandemic that amounted to about one-third of a school year's worth of knowledge and skills.

How Dare You Blame Parents for Pandemic Kids Being 'Behind'

Now that many of the babies born in 2020 are school-age but apparently not school-ready, parents are being scapegoated, writes parenting ...

Children lost about 35% of a normal school year's worth of learning ...

Results from a Pew Research Center survey, published in October, suggest that about 61% of parents of K-12 students say the first year of the ...

Politicians and pundits say parents are furious with schools. Polls ...

The pandemic upended many things about American schooling, but not this long-standing trend. In Gallup's most recent poll, conducted late last ...

Covid is having a devastating impact on children - NBC News

The Covid-19 pandemic has taken a social, emotional and academic toll ... “School for many of our children is the safest place,” VanOverbeke said.

Students lost months of learning due to COVID school closures ...

New research concludes that school disruptions triggered by COVID-19 set kids around the world back by about a third of a year.

For parents whose children can't attend school due to the COVID-19 ...

For parents whose children can't attend school due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being "I don't think about it" to ...

Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on ...

That shift took a particularly heavy toll on students who had to juggle their own education while caring for children, elderly or sick parents, ...