Column: Researchers offer a largely tragic glimpse of learning loss here and across the nation.
provided “lower than average” educational opportunities, with scores 1.17 grade level below the national average, even while socioeconomic status was at roughly the national average. Scores were 1.17 grade levels lower than counties with similar socioeconomic status.And the pandemic made things worse, further widening achievement gaps between high- and low-poverty schools, the researchers found.
Money has poured in to try to address losses, but it won’t be enough to catch kids up, the researchers found — think kids who lost a full year of learning would need a full year of extra funding —and it’s unclear just yet how effectively the money is being spent.A teacher at Castle View Elementary School in Riverside’s “bring your pets to Zoom” class last year.
Later, I covered education in San Diego, one of the largest school districts in the nation, and one committed to addressing the achievement gap. There were magnet programs and intensive reading interventions and extra help. Things got a little better, but poorer schools still got the least-experienced teachers. Class sizes could be eye-popping. And the achievement gap persisted.Black male children have the hardest time, poor or not, according to the latest data .
eminded me that this was an average, and that, while the differences near the middle might not be so great, the differences between very high-need and low-need students is substantial.The view from 30,000 feet is this: California’s average per-student spending is slightly above the national average —$14,913 here, vs. $13,831 nationwide — ranking it 19th among the states.But — this is California we’re talking about.
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