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Another Study Shows How Covid Learning Losses Are Still Hurting Students

More than 2 in 3 schools (68 percent) are performing worse in both math and reading than they did before the Covid panic.

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Roughly six years on from the first lockdowns in the name of “containing” the coronavirus, another study has demonstrated their profound effect on the next generation of Americans. This report illustrates how only a fraction of schools have recovered the learning losses incurred during the pandemic’s early months.

More than three years ago, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten attempted to absolve herself from the effects of prolonged school lockdowns. But the most recent study shows how students continue to pay the price for unions’ pro-lockdown policies.

Schools Lagging Behind

The study, conducted by NWEA (since 2023 a division of testing company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), shows anemic progress overall. By the fall of 2024, only 1 in 7 (14 percent) of schools had returned to fall 2019 (i.e., prepandemic) achievement levels in both math and reading. Only 32 percent of schools had returned to prepandemic levels in........

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