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While struggling to prevent the spread of COVID, pandemic remote learning prompted schoolchildren to fall behind on maths and failed to prevent the spread of COVID. "We kept our kids at home longer than we should have," said doctors

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 18, 2024
Despite the fact that children suffered significant and long-term academic declines, many public health and education professionals now agree that extended school closures did not stop COVID from spreading. Researchers analyzed reports from 7,800 school districts to see how factors such as remote learning time and federal funding allocation influenced student achievement in a study referred to as the Education Recovery Scorecard. According to the report, students in districts where they studied in person for the majority of the year dropped more than a grade behind in math for the majority of the year.