Dating back to 2020, when the pandemic upended American education overnight, many schools have adopted a more lenient approach to grading. Some eliminated zeros or removed penalties for late work. Many teachers report “giving grace” to struggling students. Others say they have felt pressure from administrators to limit failure rates. More at Test Scores Down, GPAs Up: The New Angst Over Grade Inflation (msn.com)
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Is anyone surprised? We're not. You want to know where has been no "learning loss"? The schools that stayed open!
ReplyDeleteSeveral articles were posted attesting to this fact. Dramatic proof is in the graduation stats and regents test scores. Here's an interesting article: Why Catholic schools didn’t fail at all while public ones did during COVID pandemic
DeleteIn case you missed it, American education is in free-fall. The National Center for Education Statistics released the first national test scores for fourth- and eighth-graders since before the pandemic, and the news is somehow worse than we could have imagined, with catastrophic learning loss, the largest declines ever recorded and decades of progress wiped out.
But in America’s Catholic schools, the failure and free-fall simply did not happen. In fact, in both math and reading, Catholic scores stayed the same or improved in areas where public schools dramatically declined.
For instance, Catholic students in 8th grade saw a one-point average increase in their reading scores, compared to the three-point drop for public school 8th graders. Scores for 4th-grade math stayed the same for Catholic schools but dropped five points for public schoolers in the same grade.
The losses facing America’s public-school students can’t be overstated — researchers typically consider 10 points as equivalent to a year’s worth of learning, so most of our public-school students have lost months they can’t get back.
Unsurprisingly, the education establishment has been scrambling. They seemed unable to decide whether this disaster affected all states regardless of COVID closures (it didn’t), READ MORE AT Why Catholic schools didn't fail while public ones did during COVID (nypost.com) https://nypost.com/2022/11/15/why-catholic-schools-didnt-fail-while-public-ones-did-during-covid/
Thank you. We are so glad we took our boys out years ago.
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