648 - Pandemic Learning Loss Will Take Years To Reverse
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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More than three years after COVID first shuttered schools, researchers are taking stock of how children are doing academically. Hopkins biostatistician Elizabeth Stuart speaks with Stephanie Desmon about their research about learning gaps and why it's so important to invest in regaining lost ground while still letting kids be kids. She also explains how this data can help inform difficult policy decisions like school closures in the event of another public health emergency.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.8 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.1 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Johns Hopkins researcher, Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, about her recent |
| 0:39.0 | work on understanding pandemic learning loss and what can be done now to help children who have fallen behind. |
| 0:45.5 | Let's listen. |
| 0:47.0 | Elizabeth Stewart, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 0:49.7 | It's great to be here with you. |
| 0:51.2 | So before we launch in, I did want to congratulate you on your new appointment |
| 0:54.3 | at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. You are now the chair of the Department of |
| 0:59.6 | Biostatistics. So congratulations on that. Thank you so much. It's been a fun change. Yeah. Today I want |
| 1:05.9 | to talk about learning loss during the pandemic. I know you recently did some research with some others on what |
| 1:12.7 | that looked like and where we go from here. And this is such an important topic for anyone with |
| 1:17.8 | children and really frankly, everyone, because I think this could have long-term impacts on the |
| 1:22.3 | economy. So talk to me about what the learning loss looked like. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, thank you for focusing on this topic. |
| 1:33.5 | As you said, I think it's something that's going to go well beyond, like the school environment and we really need to be grappling with it more broadly. |
| 1:36.5 | I first want to recognize the team that I worked on with this. |
| 1:39.5 | So I was led as part of this educational opportunity project led by Tom Kane at Harvard and Sean Reardon at |
| 1:45.2 | Stanford. And so it was really a big effort to bring together a whole diverse set of data to |
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