The New York Times
By Michael J. Petrilli

“The bad news about U.S. schools just keeps coming. We already knew from federal studies that students lost significant ground during the Covid pandemic and its related school shutdowns. What’s alarming about the latest research, published in July by the research organization NWEA, is that American children continued backsliding over the most recent school year, making less progress in reading and math than their counterparts before the pandemic. Rather than catching up, our students are falling farther behind, succumbing to “education’s long Covid,” as the researchers put it.”