National study singles out Florida schools for bucking COVID-19 academic losses
What’s being called the most comprehensive national study of the impact of remote learning found Florida avoided the dramatic losses in learning during the 2020-21 school year.
Harvard University spearheaded the study, which generally found that high-poverty schools spent more weeks in remote instruction and that these more disadvantaged schools suffered larger losses in academic achievement during the second school year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
But school districts that remained open and largely in-person lost relatively little ground, according to the study of test data from 2.1 million students in 49 states and the District of Columbia.
Overall, researchers found that high-pover...