Flutterby™! : COVID was not the cause of test declines

Oh, you mean the complaints about remote learning not working were largely bullshit, and the children's happiness at not being forced into bullying situations was seen as a downside? Golly, who might have thought that the advocates for violence against non- conforming children might be willing to draw false conclusions?

Kids' test scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains

The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years before COVID-19's arrival. That's according to the latest Education Scorecard, an annual deep-dive into student data from The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University and Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.

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