Learning loss has been recorded across grade levels and subjects, suggesting that remote learning spared very few. Hardest hit wereand children of color, who, in some cases, lacked adequate internet access. In some households, parents who held"essential" jobs were unable to help their children with online learning.
, an education expert at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. He added that the pandemic widened the"achievement gap" between white and Asian students on the one hand and students of color on the other. "If we would've kept schools open, more people would have died due to COVID," Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York, who was once a school principal in the Bronx, said in his fiery remarks. There is, however, that in states like Florida, where schools reopened early, the coronavirus spread more rapidly as a result.
"If kids are dead, they don't learn," said Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former national teacher of the year. Very few children across the nationLearning loss was steepest in school districts that stayed remote longestIn the first days of the pandemic, “We are all in this together” was a rallying cry for a frightened, locked-down nation.