14 Charts This Year That Helped Us Better Understand COVID’S Impact on Students, Teachers and Schools – The 74

Read article - Features comments by Douglas Staiger, a professor of economics and of the Dartmouth Institute, about a study he co-authored that projected how much potential income could be lost due to diminished math learning among eighth graders since schools transitioned to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. “When there are improvements in scores, those kids coming out of school are going to have better outcomes later in life,” said Staiger. “And we can infer from this recent decline that all the cohorts in school now are going to do a bit worse than we expected.”