{"id":1800570,"date":"2023-01-10T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T08:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1800570"},"modified":"2023-01-10T03:22:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T08:22:29","slug":"take-it-from-a-teacher-theres-only-one-fix-to-massive-learning-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/take-it-from-a-teacher-theres-only-one-fix-to-massive-learning-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Take It From A Teacher: There\u2019s Only One Fix To Massive Learning Loss"},"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\">26<\/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%2Ftake-it-from-a-teacher-theres-only-one-fix-to-massive-learning-loss%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=1800570&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-->\n<p>By now, it\u2019s well-known that the school shutdowns during the Covid pandemic have resulted in noticeable learning loss. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/highlights\/ltt\/2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most recent data<\/a> The National Assessment of Educational Progress (a.k.a. \u201cthe Nation\u2019s Report Card\u201dAccording to the report, reading and math skills across the country are at their lowest levels in decades. Evidently, remote learning, where kids attend classes through Zoom and submit their work online, wasn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/14\/why-online-schooling-should-not-become-the-norm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Remotely effective<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to dismiss such news, as Americans have a low opinion of public education. They assume the worst. But, the Hoover Institution recently provided a way for people to understand this loss: dollars and cents.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/economic-cost-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Economic Consequence of the Pandemic: State by State<\/a>,\u201d According to the Hoover Institute, American students who miss more than a year of in-person instruction will suffer a significant financial loss. The report states that the following: \u201cStudents on average face 2-9 percent lower lifetime incomes depending on the state in which they live,\u201d And \u201cstates themselves are estimated to face a GDP that is 0.6 to 2.9 percent lower each year for the remainder of the 21st Century.\u201d Their incomes and state economies will decline as fewer high-skilled jobs are available to them.<\/p>\n<p>Further, this problem could easily become a major problem. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/16\/why-did-gen-z-turn-out-to-vote-for-democrats-and-against-their-own-interests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American political culture<\/a>. In addition to adults voting less for politicians and policies that give them more social entitlements than they earn, students who are not proficient in math and reading will have a harder time pursuing a career in engineering, science, or technology. They will instead take on enormous debt to majoring in an easier discipline, which consists primarily of leftist activism, maximising their uselessness to society.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, poorer children will suffer more from the political and financial repercussions due to Covid learning loss than those who are rich. Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s classic illustrates this point. <em>\u201c<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/3228917-outliers?from_search=true&#038;from_srp=true&#038;qid=j2UKEMedp0&#038;rank=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Outliers<\/a><em>,\u201d<\/em> poorer students suffer much more from summer learning loss than rich students whose parents can pay for learning enrichment and extracurricular programs when school\u2019s out. In the same way, during the Covid shut down, wealthy students had access tutors and supplemental instruction. Poor students, however, spent the majority of their time in class. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/16\/health\/covid-kids-tech-use.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Playing games on tablets and computers and watching movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Proposals for Fixing Learning Loss <\/p>\n<p>Despite how terrible this report sounds, the Hoover Institution report suggests that there is a way to fix the situation. This would be by reforming public education and compensating for the loss. Presumably, this could be done by lengthening the school day or school year \u2014 which would probably be a good idea anyway, since the school year in America is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/articles\/2016-08-29\/should-the-us-lengthen-its-school-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It is shorter than the rest in the developed world<\/a> \u2014 or instruction could be intensified by raising levels of rigor and covering content faster.<\/p>\n<p>Schools are not, unfortunately, as I have seen them from my perspective as a teacher in a public school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of this is easy or popular \u2014 the temptations of a quick fix or a gimmick will always be around \u2014 but this is the only way forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":1800573,"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":[6919,6382,6169,5908,4698,5126],"class_list":["post-1800570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-federalist","tag-learning","tag-loss","tag-massive","tag-teacher","tag-theres"],"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\/1800570","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\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}