Using cohort data from the prior year, of the FastBridge aReading, aMath and CBMreading assessments in the U.S, this study tries to estimate typical learning losses from the spring to fall.
Education in a Pandemic: The Disparate Impacts of COVID-19 on America’s Students
This Report bears witness to the many ways that COVID-19, with all of its tragic impacts on individuals, families, and communities, appears to be deepening divides in educational opportunity across the nation’s classrooms and campuses.
COVID-19 and student performance, equity, and U.S. education policy
This report briefly reviews the relevant literature on educational settings that have features in common with how education is occurring during the crisis and emerging evidence on opportunity gaps during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to propose a three-pronged plan
Student Mental Health Survey (September 2020)
Active Minds survey of 2,051 students regarding the impact of COVID-19 on their mental health in September 2020. Key findings reveal that mental health has worsened over the course of the pandemic but students are resilient and have used a variety of coping strategies.
The COVID-19 slide: What summer learning loss can tell us about the potential impact of school closures on student academic achievement
This research examines how the observed typical average growth trajectory by grade for students who completed a standard-length school year compares to projections under two scenarios for the closures: a COVID-19 slide and COVID-19 slowdown.
Projecting the potential impacts of COVID-19 school closures on academic achievement
This study produces a series of projections of COVID-19-related learning loss and its potential effect on test scores in the 2020-21 school year based on (a) estimates from prior literature and (b) analyses of typical summer learning patterns of five million students.