{"id":1801787,"date":"2023-01-11T07:19:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801787"},"modified":"2023-01-11T07:20:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:20:27","slug":"thanks-to-needless-covid-school-lockdowns-your-kids-lifetime-earning-potential-plummeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thanks-to-needless-covid-school-lockdowns-your-kids-lifetime-earning-potential-plummeted\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks To Needless Covid School Lockdowns, Your Kids\u2019 Lifetime Earning Potential Plummeted"},"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%2Fthanks-to-needless-covid-school-lockdowns-your-kids-lifetime-earning-potential-plummeted%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=1801787&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>The Covid pandemic has affected all of us differently, but no one lost more than America\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p>The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which was released last fall, revealed the learning losses of American children during lockdowns.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data<\/a>\u00a0A sharp decline in the test scores of fourth- and eighth-graders was evident. Eric Hanushek from Stanford University&#8217;s Hoover Institution based his findings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/economic-cost-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Estimate<\/a> the economic cost of these learning losses will have substantial long-term negative effects on students\u2019 lifetime earnings and the overall U.S. economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hanushek specialized in economic analysis of eighth-graders, as these students are at a developmental crossroads and their academic performance can be a critical indicator of their future success. NAEP data shows this is why eighth-grade test scores are so alarming. In 2022, eighth graders will have an average reading score of 83 points.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/highlights\/reading\/2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rejected<\/a>\u00a0Comparable to 2019, by 3 points \u201cwas lower compared to all previous assessment years going back to 1998.\u201d The eighth-grade average math score\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationsreportcard.gov\/highlights\/mathematics\/2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slashed<\/a>\u00a0By 8 points in comparison to 2019 \u201cwas lower than all previous assessment years going back to 2003.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanushek\u2019s analysis has three key findings. First, today\u2019s learning losses suggest significant future economic losses for students because extensive research has shown that \u201cthose with higher achievement and greater cognitive skills earn more.\u201d Hanushek estimates \u201cthe average student during the pandemic will have 5.6 percent lower lifetime earnings. This figure compares the expected earnings given the eight-point loss in math achievement to what could have been expected without the pandemic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Depending on which state the student was in during the pandemic, students\u2019 learning losses and associated future-income effects are drastically different across states. Utah students who had lost an average of 2.7 points in math can expect to lose less than 2% in their lifetime income. However, Delaware students who had their math scores fall by more than 12 percentage points can expect to see a loss of nearly 9 percent in their future income. The wide ranges have more to do with how states responded to Covid\u00a0 (i.e., the length of school closures and remote learning) than the quality of their public education before the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts is known for its quality public education, pre-Covid. The state closed its schools until May 2021 due to the pandemic. Massachusetts became the first state to declare bankruptcy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/sites\/default\/files\/research\/docs\/Massachusetts_HESI_PaperSeries_template_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saw<\/a>\u00a0its eighth graders\u2019 reading scores decline by more than 4 points and math scores by more than 10 points in 2022 compared to 2019. Hanushek predicts that these learning losses will result in Massachusetts students who are part of the Covid cohort earning 7.6 percent less over their lifetimes. Texas, on the other hand, reopened its schools in fall 2020. The state\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/sites\/default\/files\/research\/docs\/Texas_HESI_PaperSeries_template_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saw<\/a>\u00a0its eighth graders\u2019 reading scores decline by less than 1 point, and math scores drop by about 7 points in 2022 compared to 2019. <\/p>\n<p>On average, Texas students who are part of the Covid cohort will earn 4.9 percent less in their lifetimes. This comparison shows how important policy responses to the pandemic are state-by-state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data suggests Covid-era learning losses will have long-term negative effects on kids&#8217; lifetime earnings and the overall economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":536,"featured_media":1801790,"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":[4127,9099,6919,4247,10229,4619,14354,8249,4238,3924],"class_list":["post-1801787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-covid","tag-earning","tag-federalist","tag-kids","tag-lifetime","tag-lockdowns","tag-needless","tag-plummeted","tag-potential","tag-school"],"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\/1801787","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\/536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}