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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Since we’re seeing these educational declines in other provinces and countries, the obvious explanation is the covid school closures and loss of in-class learnings. There’s a reason education experts and child welfare advocates implored jurisdictions to do everything possible to keep schools operating in-person during the pandemic. We have a wealth of data showing the loss of even a few weeks of instruction (and for many students during the pandemic, remote learning meant no learning) affects learning outcomes for years. Especially for the weakest students.
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If that was the case, then wouldn't there be a discrepancy between jurisdictions with longer school closures and those with shorter or no closures? Because the most recent OECD data shows no real distinction in resilience of performance based on school closure length. In anything, there's actually a slight negative correlation, where the jurisdictions with a higher percentage of students experiencing 3+ month closures were actually more likely to have resilient performance in math and reading compared to pre-pandemic than jurisdictions with shorter closures.
And that doesn't even get into the fact that educational performance declines in most countries long predate the pandemic.