{"id":1753284,"date":"2022-11-28T08:17:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753284"},"modified":"2022-11-28T08:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:17:33","slug":"covid-learning-loss-could-cost-american-kids-900-billion-in-lost-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-learning-loss-could-cost-american-kids-900-billion-in-lost-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid Learning Loss Could Cost American Kids $900 Billion In Lost Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fcovid-learning-loss-could-cost-american-kids-900-billion-in-lost-income%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=1753284&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--><p>Shortly after the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) testing results showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dramatic learning loss<\/a> by American youth during the coronavirus pandemic, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rweingarten\/status\/1587180773186015232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1587180773186015232%7Ctwgr%5E02fb15d24c7662d9aa4ee17bd840dd778cb12ce2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalist.com%2F2022%2F11%2F04%2Fteachers-unions-want-to-absolve-themselves-for-the-effects-of-their-draconian-lockdowns%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attempted<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/04\/teachers-unions-want-to-absolve-themselves-for-the-effects-of-their-draconian-lockdowns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grant herself absolution<\/a> for the lengthy Covid lockdowns of schools. But a <a href=\"https:\/\/educationrecoveryscorecard.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">series of new studies<\/a> demonstrate exactly how much those lockdowns could cost the next generation of American students.<\/p>\n<p>The studies use both current NAEP data and studies from prior years to show that the learning loss associated with the pandemic, if not remedied, could lead to approximately $900 billion in lower earnings for public school students. Worse yet, the effects will likely hit low-income families hardest \u2014 a perfect example of how seemingly well-intentioned leftist policies have the effect of keeping poor families poor.<\/p>\n<p> Long-Term Effects of Learning Loss <\/p>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/educationrecoveryscorecard.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Long-Term-Outcomes_11.18.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">papers<\/a> by the Center for Education Policy Research used data from the Census Bureau and prior rounds of NAEP test scores taken between 1990 and 2019 to analyze the connection between test results and long-term life outcomes. Because different states\u2019 scores on the NAEP test for eighth-grade math rose by different amounts over the past several decades, the researchers could analyze how those differences affected cohorts of students as they went through life.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers examined factors such as changes in income, the likelihood of enrolling in college, teen motherhood, and incarceration. Perhaps unsurprisingly, higher test scores were associated with higher income and college enrollment, along with lower rates of teen motherhood and incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>Using the results they obtained from analyzing pre-pandemic data, the researchers then extrapolated what would happen if the learning losses from the pandemic era do not get reversed. They calculated the learning loss would lead to a 1.6 percent decline in lifetime earnings.<\/p>\n<p>A 1.6 percent income loss may not sound like much, but it amounts to an $800 pay cut at a $50,000 per year job \u2014 real money to most Americans. Over the course of a lifetime, the income loss would total $19,400, or enough to buy a modest car. Multiply the $19,400 by the 48 million American children attending public schools during the pandemic, and the nationwide loss of income due to learning loss could amount to a staggering $900 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The harmful effects don\u2019t end there, however, as learning loss will have other long-lasting and equally harmful effects. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-high-price-of-covid-learning-loss-naep-scores-pandemic-11668455273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">editorial<\/a> in The Wall Street Journal quotes one of the researchers observing that, for eighth-grade students:<\/p>\n<p>College enrollment would fall 2.4%. Meantime, the number of high school dropouts would increase 3.6%, of teen mothers by 3.2%, of the unemployed by 6.6%, and of young men incarcerated by 14.2%.<\/p>\n<p>These data provide all the evidence in the world why American parents should not so easily forgive, or forget, the way in which Weingarten and her allies lobbied to keep schools closed indefinitely during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> Poor Students Worst Off <\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/educationrecoveryscorecard.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Education-Recovery-Scorecard_Key-Findings_102822.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> analyzing this year\u2019s NAEP results proved what many observers might intuit: The poorest areas suffered worst from learning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of new studies demonstrate exactly how much school shutdowns could cost the next generation of American students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":1753287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753284","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\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}