Third MSU report on ‘pandemic learning’ shows less student progress in 2020-2021

The report found that achievement growth slowed over the course of the 2020-2021 school year, with fewer Michigan students reaching expected growth targets in fall 2021 than before the pandemic. This is not unique to Michigan, but echoes findings from other research in districts and states across the U.S. consistently showing lower average achievement and less than typical achievement growth than would have been expected for similar students before the pandemic.

This is the third in a series of reports from MSU’s Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, or EPIC, the strategic research partner of the Michigan Department of Education, or MDE. This report incorporates new results from student test scores from the fall of the 2021-22 school year to update previous analyses and continue to monitor student progress.

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