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COVID-19 hurt kids’ math learning more than reading and writing – with the biggest setbacks in fall 2020
DATE: June 27, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic had a stark negative impact on students’ math scores, new data from Michigan shows. Math achievement growth over the three-year period from spring 2019 through spring 2022 was substantially lower – approximately 7 national percentiles – than among comparable students the three years prior.
There were even larger decreases among students who are Black or Latino, low income or who attended the majority of schools that taught remotely for at least part of the 2020-2021 academic year.
Effects on scores for English language arts, which include reading and writing, were small and generally not statistically significant.
To arrive at these findings, we looked at individual test scores and other data from Michigan.
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