Welcome back. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson Show, the phone number 8779773-745. This is your no-brainer of the day.

And I want to begin here with this. This is very important. It is a report that has been issued by the Center for Education Policy Research at

Harvard, Harvard, the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Educational Research

at the American Institute for Research, and NWEA, a nonprofit research and educational

services provider.

It analyzed achievement data from 2.1 million students in 10,000 schools across 49 states

and is the first in a series tracking the impact of lockdown and remote learning and the catch-up of what's going on.

And I can give you the bottom line.

If you're in a blue state, poor kids have fallen dramatically behind.

Experts predict, this is a quote, experts predict the results will foreshadow a widening

in measures of the nation's racial and economic achievement gap.

This is an interview with Thomas Kane.

Let me read you this. We found that districts that spent more

weeks in remote instruction lost more ground than districts that returned to in-person instruction

sooner. Anyone who has been teaching by Zoom would not be surprised by that.

The striking and important finding was that remote instruction had much more negative

impacts in high poverty schools.

High poverty schools were more likely to go remote and their students lost more when they

did so.

Both mattered, but the latter effect mattered more.

To give you a sense of the magnitude,

in high poverty schools that were remote for more than half of 2021,

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