“Everybody knows that learning fell back during the pandemic, but what this study is showing is that, at least in these districts, teaching also has fallen back,” said Robin Lake, director of the education center, based at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.
The 2022-23 school year opened the first window in three years into the day-to-day happenings of classrooms, the report said. What administrators discovered was “unexpected and alarming.” said tutoring cost $500,000 and had little success. “That’s a lot of money. And nothing to show for it?” the leader was quoted as saying.
One district leader who had just visited a string of schools said there was a lot of “just getting through the day,” the report said.