Learning more about COVID's impact on education

It’s been five years since students began the first two-week cycle of online learning when the emerging spread of COVID-19 shuttered schools across the country. First for two weeks, then another two weeks and students didn’t return to the classroom for in-person instruction until the fall of 2020. Today, we are getting our first in-depth glances into the potential learning loss from that first year of COVID.

As expected, students across Pennsylvania and the nation are, on average, half a grade level below where they would otherwise be. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content..