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Five years since lockdown: 5 ways children’s education is still being impacted - in numbers

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More pupils are still being expelled or missing class, while young children are starting school in nappies

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The Epoch Times

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Influence of Lockdown, Pandemic-Era Messaging Contributing to Pupil Absences, Report Suggests

A report suggests that the lasting effects of COVID-19 lockdowns and pandemic-era messaging continue to impact school absences, which remain above pre-2019 levels. The study by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) found among its case studies that illness, mental health problems, and term-time holidays were “the key drivers of absence” from secondary school. It said that while children have always missed school legitimately fo…

23 hours ago·New York, United States

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Voice of San Diego

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The Progress Report: Santee Reopened Its Schools Early. Now Students Are Outperforming Pre-Pandemic Levels.

When school districts shut down for in-person instruction in March of 2020, many educators thought the disruption would only last a couple of weeks. An unknown virus was spreading across the world infecting hundreds of thousands. Tens of thousands had already died. It was an unprecedented situation, and for many, it seemed reasonable that an unprecedented response was needed. But few foresaw just how long students would end up attending school …

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COVID-19 and the classroom: A look at how schools have recovered in the past five years

Students and teachers of both public and private schools in D.C. are still working to fully return to normal five years after a global pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Two Rivers Public Charter Schools) By Gene A. LambeySpecial to the AFROOn Friday, March 13, 2020 teachers and members of the school community had their last normal day in the workforce. As fear of a deadly virus spread, infection rates traveled faster. In recognition of the fifth anni…

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Nature

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COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes. New global evidence from PISA

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. Global test score data is used to estimate learning losses by modeling the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from all rounds of PISA. Mathematics scores declined an average of 14 percent of a standard deviation, roughly equal to seven months of learning. Losses are greater f…

4 days ago·United Kingdom

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