Why isn’t Gov. Murphy out front on this, the way he was with his pandemic briefings?
We have the data now on the pandemic’s academic toll, and it’s dire: For American fourth graders, newly released test results show huge declines in reading and math scores.considered a gold standard in testing, found that Black and Hispanic students on average lost the most ground, after spending the most time in remote learning.
“Everyone needs to mobilize when looking at these numbers,” as New Jersey’s Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz said last week – otherwise, “we are falling short of what our moral responsibility is.” His administration is making a good effort to collect data, moving forward with more testing at the beginning of this school year. But it still hasn’t publicly shared or discussed the results of the state tests students took in the Spring. We’ve been behind other states in our response to learning loss, and have done little to track the billions in federal dollars going directly to schools that can be used for this purpose.
While the state did put out some guidance on best practices, we haven’t seen any robust plan that looks at the effects of what’s been done so far, or heard further recommendations and timelines for getting students back on track.
Yet while she agrees that the DOE doesn’t seem to have a plan on learning loss, she questioned how big a problem it is in New Jersey, compared to four years ago: “Have we really dropped,” she muses, “or have we just not moved the needle going in a positive direction?”
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