{"id":1396861,"date":"2022-03-23T16:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396861"},"modified":"2022-03-23T16:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:59:54","slug":"study-students-arent-bouncing-back-post-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-students-arent-bouncing-back-post-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Students Aren\u2019t Bouncing Back Post-Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-students-arent-bouncing-back-post-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1396861&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/8D4186D8-E43C-48E2-AD5A-70C96BAE2ABF_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">A recent national study showed how the effects of the pandemic still linger for many students.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWere there signs of stabilization? Yeah, there really were,\u201d Gene Kerns, chief academic officer at Renaissance Learning Inc., said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/test-scores-rise-return-school-11647987427\"><span class=\"s2\">The Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a>. He added, however, that the results are not back to pre-pandemic rates. \u201cThere are not signs of a recovery if you define that as getting back to where we were performing before all this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Renaissance looked at\u00a0test <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renaissance.com\/how-kids-are-performing\/\"><span class=\"s2\">results<\/span><\/a>\u00a0from kids across the country. The group explained that the sample \u201cconsisted of students at schools where Star computer-adaptive assessments were used during both the 2020\u20132021 and 2021\u20132022 school years. The sample included students from all 50 states plus DC, with 4.4 million K\u201312 students comprising the early literacy\/reading sample and 2.9 million grade 1\u201312 students comprising the math sample.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">With regard to math, the survey found that the nationwide percentage of students at or above the benchmark went down 2% when contrasting the winter of the 2021-2022 school year and the 2020-2021 school year winter. The same percentage decrease was seen in literacy levels.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The Journal noted, \u201cFall-to-winter growth, however, improved this school year, and the gulf in scores from last year to this year shrank by winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The group also tracks \u201cStudent Growth Percentile\u201d (SGP) levels, \u201cwhich is similar to the percentile measurements tracking a child\u2019s weight and height, with 50 marking the typical person,\u201d per the outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Nationwide, the median fall to winter SGP level for math from the 2021-2022 school year, compared to the year prior, is 50, up 3 points. For reading, it is also up 3 points and sits at 48 for the entire country. To return entirely to pre-pandemic measurements, the numbers needs to be over 50 persistently, per Renaissance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The pandemic not only disrupted children\u2019s learning by forcing students to transition to remote schooling, but the requirement of mask-wearing is also considered by some to have affected the speech development of young children.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Out of the students who went to programs at the Institute of Reading Development, a literacy organization, around 49% of those going into first grade this school year were reading at a level below what was expected. Prior to the pandemic, that number was at 28%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Earlier this month, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/08\/us\/pandemic-schools-reading-crisis.html\"><span class=\"s2\">reported<\/span><\/a> on \u201cthis year\u2019s reading emergency,\u201d noting that multiple studies revealed how more students in lower grades are not performing as well in reading as they were prior to the pandemic.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">While literacy was already an issue before the coronavirus pandemic, the complications surrounding school shutdowns likely made it significantly worse.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">A study found that in Virginia, early reading ability was at a 20-year low in the fall, which the researchers called \u201calarming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The Times reported, \u201cIn the Boston region, 60 percent of students at some high-poverty schools have been identified as at high risk for reading problems \u2014 twice the number of students as before the pandemic, according to Tiffany P. Hogan, director of the Speech and Language Literacy Lab at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent national study showed how the effects of the pandemic still linger for many students.\u00a0\u201cWere there signs of stabilization? Yeah, there really were,\u201d Gene Kerns, chief academic officer at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1396861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1396861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1396861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1396861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}