The pandemic learning losses.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Today, we're covering the results from the "Nation's Report Card," which showed significant drops in learning for fourth and eighth graders — tied to the pandemic — in both math and reading. We also have a major milestone and a reader question about Steve Bannon's sentence.
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| 1:03.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about some new data that just came out about learning loss in America. |
| 1:12.0 | There are some pretty troubling scores that have come through. |
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