524 - Just How Far Did Students Fall Behind During COVID-19?
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Pandemic disruptions led to serious learning loss in K-12 education, and new research shows just how serious. Peggy Carr, the commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, talks with Stephanie Desmon about what the data shows in terms of student performance, why these historic declines will have impacts for years to come, and what can be done to start closing the gaps.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:17.0 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
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| 0:37.2 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health on Call. |
| 0:40.6 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Peggy Carr, Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, |
| 0:47.0 | about recent research showing just how far students have fallen behind during the pandemic |
| 0:52.1 | and what can be done to catch up. |
| 0:54.9 | She will be releasing new data on the fourth and eighth grade progress in October. |
| 0:59.9 | Let's listen. |
| 1:01.2 | Nikki Carr, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:03.1 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:04.3 | So your organization released a startling report on how nine-year-old students have fared academically during the |
| 1:12.8 | pandemic. What did you find? Well, first of all, Stephanie, let me say that this was very sobering. |
| 1:20.1 | These results were historic. This is what we call the long-term trend assessment out of the national assessment, |
| 1:29.0 | educational progress, has been doing this for a while since the 70s. |
| 1:35.2 | And we were in the field collecting these data back in 2020 before COVID was declared a pandemic |
| 1:43.6 | and as we were coming out of the field, well, it hit. |
| 1:48.0 | And the school started to close. |
| 1:50.1 | So we have this really great data point of nine-year-olds reading and math that we were picking up right there as COVID was beginning to be a big problem for the world. We went back just this |
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