COVID School Shutdowns Caused Historic Learning Losses for Kids, Government Report Shows - The Political Insider

COVID School Shutdowns Caused Historic Learning Losses for Kids, Government Report Shows - The Political Insider  BY THE CENTER SQUARE - By Casey Harper (The Center Square)

"Pandemic-era shutdowns caused historic learning loss for grade school students, according to data released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education.

..Math took the hardest hit, but reading scores did not fare well either.
For perspective, 

• fourth grade math scores had progressively increased by 28 points since 1990, but then dipped 5 points since 2019, taking scores back to the early 2000s levels.
• For eighth graders, math scores dropped eight points from 2019, erasing a significant amount of the the gains made since 1990...