Salif Wane, 7, left, and Dagny Brazil, 7, are reading a book together at teacher Megan Bobroske’s second grade classroom of Bradley International School in Denver, Colorado on Thursday, September 29, 2022. After switching its elementary reading curriculum to one aligned with the science of reading, Denver Public Schools is celebrating an increase in the percentage of kindergarten through third grade students who ended the school year reading on grade level.
The lower test scores show the long tail of pandemic learning loss. They indicate that the pandemic not only affected children who were in school when the virus hit in early 2020, but also those who were too young to be enrolled.
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