{"id":1992884,"date":"2023-08-07T07:28:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-learning-loss-isnt-confined-to-the-classroom-its-hurting-our-economy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T07:35:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:35:58","slug":"covid-learning-loss-isnt-confined-to-the-classroom-its-hurting-our-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-learning-loss-isnt-confined-to-the-classroom-its-hurting-our-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid&#8217;s impact on education extends beyond classrooms, affecting our economy."},"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\">20<\/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-isnt-confined-to-the-classroom-its-hurting-our-economy%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=1992884&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Over the past few years, numerous \u200cstudies have chronicled the ways in which millions of American\u2064 students suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/06\/28\/evidence-continues-to-pile-up-of-catastrophic-learning-loss-from-school-lockdowns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">massive learning losses<\/a> during the pandemic. But other evidence also suggests losses have come outside the classroom as well, in ways that have damaged \u2064economic growth and productivity.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/lost-learning-remote-pandemic-workplace-skills-new-employees-51351b33?mod=trending_now_news_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent story<\/a> in\u2063 The Wall \u200bStreet Journal highlighted the ways\u2064 in\u2063 which knowledge losses and the\u2064 disappearance of certain \u2062\u201csoft skills\u201d \u2063during the post-pandemic years have harmed the economy, creating qualification gaps that\u2063 employers \u2063have struggled \u200bto fill. It\u2019s the latest data\u2064 point\u2062 indicating that shutting down an entire\u200d economy \u2064and encouraging people \u2063to stay \u2063at home and take Zoom classes for \u2064months on end wasn\u2019t the best way \u2063to create a motivated and well-educated\u2062 workforce.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1145645259\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5ce49a8226ac425f57d9bb818413a26a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5ce49a8226ac425f57d9bb818413a26a\"><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Creating Labor Shortages<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Journal article \u2062provides myriad examples from across the economy \u200dof how skills \u200cshortfalls present \u201cone reason why professional service\u200d jobs are going unfilled and goods aren\u2019t making it to market. It also helps explain why\u200b national productivity has \u2062fallen for the past five quarters, the longest contraction since at least 1948\u201d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since\u2063 the start of the\u200b pandemic,\u200c \u201cthe pass rates on national \u200ccertifications and assessment exams taken\u200c by \u200bengineers, office workers, soldiers, and nurses have all fallen.\u201d For instance, on\u2062 one fundamentals\u2063 of engineering \u2062certification exam, scores fell by 10 percent, with\u200c the largest declines coming in areas\u2062 of specialized knowledge individuals will need to work as successful engineers.<\/li>\n<li>A religion professor who had to pare back\u200b his curriculum to\u200b focus on the basics observed that \u201creading, writing, and critical-thinking \u2064skills are\u2062 not the same as they were in \u2062the past.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Scores \u200con entrance exams for \u200dnursing schools have fallen 5 percentage points from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/south-dakota-lowers-unemployment-to-pre-pandemic-levels-after-state-rejected-lockdowns\/\" title=\"South Dakota Lowers Unemployment to Pre-Pandemic Levels After State Rejected Lockdowns\">pre-pandemic levels<\/a>, limiting the ability\u200c of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ten-gop-senators-counter-bidens-1-9-trillion-relief-plan-request-meeting\/\" title=\"Ten GOP Senators Counter Biden\u2019s .9 Trillion Relief Plan, Request Meeting\">health care providers<\/a> to \u2064fill staffing shortages they have suffered since\u2064 Covid.<\/li>\n<li>Managers at a zoo\u200c in Michigan \u201care\u200b coaching seasonal workers in their teens and early 20s on basics such as why it\u2019s important to\u2063 look visitors in the \u200ceye, and how to make change at a cash register. They are also trying \u2063to instill a work ethic in their \u200bemployees that includes taking some initiative, getting off\u2062 their phones and engaging \u200cwith visitors,\u201d\u200d because a \u2064lack of accountability for poor performance while in school has led to a lack\u200c of motivation when \u200dyoung \u2063people leave the classroom.<\/li>\n<li>A Los \u200dAngeles company that administers 10 million assessments annually to prospective employees \u2063found that\u200d verbal scores among men under\u200c 25 \u200cdropped dramatically during the pandemic,\u200c with the biggest losses \u201cregistered\u2064 in communication skills, reading \u200dcomprehension, grammar, spelling,\u2062 and attention to detail.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The head of one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-learning-loss-isnt-confined-to-the-classroom-its-hurting-our-economy\/\" title=\"Covid's impact on education extends beyond classrooms, affecting our economy.\">workforce development center quoted employers<\/a>\u2064 as \u200bsaying, \u201c\u2018We\u2019re just trying to find some people who can fog the mirror.\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Another employment agency head, noting that skills \u201cused to be taught in \u200cschools,\u201d noted that \u201cnow people have to be told not to bring their kids to work,\u201d lamenting that \u201cI\u2019m\u2064 really concerned by the product that\u2019s coming out of the school system currently.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Economic Costs<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>All \u200cthese knowledge and skills shortages among young people have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/connection-failure\/\" title=\"Connection Failure\">real-world effects<\/a> \u2063on the economy. With the Journal noting that hospitals incur an average of\u200c $42,000 in costs\u2062 every time a student fails a nursing competency exam, the lower pass rates for\u2062 these types of certifications have cascading effects \u2014 \u200band costs.<\/p>\n<p>One Indiana community college felt the need\u2062 to embed tutors in their nursing \u200bprogram, to help students with \u200dskills they should\u2063 have learned in high school. As one student, who spent more than a year in remote\u2064 learning, told the \u2062Journal, \u201cwhen I got here I realized I wasn\u2019t ready \u2062for nursing school. I realized I\u200d didn\u2019t know how to study.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When\u200c this\u200b school\u200b has to teach students skills they failed to learn in high school, or when the Army\u200d has to\u200c \u201ccreate a new testing boot camp to help recruits pass,\u201d and offset a 9 percent drop in scores on recruiting exams since the pandemic, that additional \u2062friction \u200cin the \u2064economy affects us all. It raises costs\u2063 for businesses,\u2062 which \u200dget\u200b passed on to consumers in the form of\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/solomon-court-decision-deals-body-blow-after-biden-admin-tried-to-block-corporate-move\/\" title=\"Solomon: Biden Admin's Block Fails as Court Deals Body Blow to Corporate Move.\">higher\u2062 prices<\/a> (e.g., higher\u2063 community\u200d college\u200b tuition),\u200d lower productivity, and ultimately, lower growth in the economy \u2063and wages.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-19f03ed3f71e1296261db7887de75447 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-19f03ed3f71e1296261db7887de75447\"><\/div>\n<p>Because most of the money\u2062 thrown at\u200d public schools to arrest Covid learning\u200b loss\u200d has apparently\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/25\/most-of-the-190-billion-in-covid-aid-to-schools-was-wasted-at-kids-expense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gone to waste<\/a>, these skills shortfalls seem likely \u2062to persist, or even\u2063 grow, as more ill-taught students get released into the economy unprepared to\u200b join\u200c the workforce every year. It suggests that,\u200c much as inflation ended \u2062up proving far from \u201ctransitory,\u201d the effects of unions\u2019 campaign to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/01\/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">keep schools \u200clocked down<\/a> during Covid will persist for years, if not\u200b decades, after the pandemic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-032a1fd80019809999986f4dccacb026 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-032a1fd80019809999986f4dccacb026\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the detrimental impact of the pandemic on American students&#8217; learning and the broader economy. Studies have shown significant learning setbacks, while additional evidence reveals the adverse effects on economic growth and productivity. The Wall Street Journal recently emphasized these concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":1992885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-1992884","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\/1992884","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=1992884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}