Policymakers up to President Joe Biden have pushed for a full return to in-person learning this year to address “learning loss” and a decline in students’ emotional well-being, among other ...

Regular attendance, which had plummeted during the pandemic, rebounded to 76% in the 2024–2025 school year, up from 66%.

Most of the United States saw declines in reading and math achievement on standardized tests between 2019 and 2022. Those declines happened in both fourth- and eighth-grade in a large majority of ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - It’s no doubt that the way Lincoln children are learning is different this year than it’s ever been. But Lincoln Public Schools administrators said students have been largely ...

American schools and the ways students learn have changed since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago. Educators nationwide have said that their students returned to classrooms after the ...

A national standardized test showed the largest decrease in math and reading scores since 1990. Age 9 students lost five points in reading and seven points in math in 2022 compared to 2020. Remote ...

Are students’ math struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic completely unprecedented? Yes and no. Disruption in schools has also meant disruption in testing, so it’s been hard to pin down exactly how ...

Starting in the spring of 2020, school boards and superintendents across the country faced a dreadful choice: Keep classrooms open and risk more COVID-19 deaths, or close schools and sacrifice ...

The past two years of the pandemic have brought an unrelenting stream of disruptions to regular schooling: building closures, quarantines, staff shortages. And study after study has shown that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a mathematician, currently president of Math for America, writing about math and science education. With a mix of ...

American schools and the ways students learn have changed since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago. After local and federal health officials ordered schools to closein March 2020, most ...