Swedish children experienced no learning loss because they were not subjected to mass school closures during the pandemic. Two countries, Sweden and Denmark, managed to avoid the upheaval. One of the studies included in the analysis found that the average public school student in third grade through eighth grade lost half a year of math learning and a quarter of a year in reading. The learning progress of school-aged children slowed substantially during the pandemic and overall, students lost about 35%, of a school year’s worth of learning. The analysis finds the losses are larger in math than in reading and in middle-income countries relative to high-income countries. Learning deficits are particularly large among children from low socio-economic backgrounds.” A meta-analysis of 42 studies across 15 countries assessed the magnitude of learning deficits during the pandemic, and finds “a substantial overall learning deficit…which arose early in the pandemic and persists over time. Yet more research, released in January, extends the grim scenario. Study after study and a mass of anecdotal evidence show the harm done by the forced lockdowns. There has been nothing but awful news about the unnecessary Covid-related shutdown of American schools. The Covid Lockdown Disaster: Three Years Later Beginning in March 2020, many bad decisions were made that will impact untold numbers of young people for the rest of their lives.
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