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Learning during COVID-19: Initial findings on students’ reading and math achievement and growth
2020
By:Megan Kuhfeld,Beth Tarasawa,Angela Johnson,Erik Ruzek,Karyn Lewis,Michael Dahlin,Dave Moyer
Description
In our report,Learning during COVID-19: Initial findings on students’ reading and math achievement and growth, we examine how school shutdowns impacted student achievement at the start of the 2020-21 school year. Using data from schools all over the country, we’ve built these visualizations toexplore three key questions:
- How have students performed this fall compared to a typical school year?
- How has student growth changed since school buildings closed in March 2020?
- How does observed student achievement in fall 2020 compare to NWEA’s projections?
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Topics:COVID-19 and schools,Equity
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