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Clarkston mom navigates COVID learning gap with special needs son

DATE: March 10, 2022

It comes as no surprise that the COVID learning gap hit general education classrooms too, and has impacted students at every grade level. According to an analysis by the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative within Michigan State’s College of Education published back in December 2021, students who had to learn online for all or most of the last academic year, fared worse overall and tended to learn less than those who were able to learn in a classroom.

A learning gap was also something educators and administrators across the state expected would happen.

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