Schools are scrambling to boost math achievement after pandemic disruptions

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Liz Willen Dear reader,

It should come as no surprise that schools across the U.S. are scrambling to get students caught up in math, now that post-pandemic test scores have revealed the depth to their missing skills: According to one estimate, they are about half a school year behind where they should be.

So how can districts find effective ways to help, despite a shortage of math teachers and fears that additional federal funding will soon run out? The Hechinger Report will be seeking to answer that question in an ongoing series ([link removed]) along with partners in the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of newsrooms that includes AL.com, The Associated Press, The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, Idaho Education News, The Post and Courier in South Carolina, and The Seattle Times. The question of just how much ground students lost during lockdowns ([link removed]) is one that researchers have been digging deep into as well, as Proof Points columnist Jill Barshay explains.

And in our continuing examination of the ways the pandemic has affected students, summer intern Rebecca Redelmeier takes us inside ([link removed]) Jefferson Parish in Louisiana, which is coping with declining enrollment at a time when more than one million students nationwide did not return to public school after the pandemic.

The district decided to shut six schools that had large populations of Black and Hispanic students, leaving researchers and advocates concerned that the nation’s declining public school enrollment — and the school closures that will likely follow — will exacerbate inequities in public education, Redelmeier reports.

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** How can schools dig out from a generation’s worth of lost math progress? ([link removed])
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Students aren’t bouncing back from the pandemic as quickly as educators hoped, intensifying worries about how they will fare as they enter high school and college-level math courses
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** PROOF POINTS: Three views of pandemic learning loss and recovery ([link removed])
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Data show kids at every age are behind three years after schools closed, and some lags are ‘alarming’



** A school closure cliff is coming. Black and Hispanic students are likely to bear the brunt ([link removed])
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When schools have more students of color, they’re more likely to close — and some shutter even when they’re high performing. In Louisiana’s largest school district, advocates say the move exacerbates a racist history, too



** OPINION: Our kids need extra help. This is no time to slash federal funding for schools ([link removed])
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Principal of the year in rural Vermont worries students will suffer if supports are decimated



** OPINION: Early childhood educators are being forced to make poor choices just when parents need them most ([link removed])
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Administrators should not be asked to choose between raising teacher pay and serving students



** High schoolers can take dual-enrollment courses for college credit. Many undocumented students cannot ([link removed])
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Undocumented students are often priced out of dual enrollment



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The child care funding ‘cliff’ is as bad as it sounds


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