The pandemic may be over, but the K-12 education emergency it left behind has entered a new phase.
That’s the central message of the new Education Scorecard report by researchers at Harvard, Stanford, Dartmouth, and its partner organizations.
It’s more than an update to the story of pandemic learning loss, showing that America’s K-12 academic problem didn’t begin in March 2020 with COVID. The country entered a learning recession around 2013, when progress in reading and math achievement stalled and then declined.
