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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Two Ways to Help Kids Bounce Back from Falling Behind in School

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Lemonada Media

News

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Kids are back in school, routine testing has begun, and new data shows math and reading skills have plunged since the pandemic. How do we spend the $122 Billion in federal funding to combat learning loss? Andy speaks with Tennessee Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn and Oakland Reach Founder Lakisha Young about the successful approaches they’re using to get kids on track, from high dosage tutoring to hubs that train community members to be “literacy liberators.” Listen and walk away motivated to do your part.

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Welcome in the bubble. I'm Andy Slavitt and it's September 9th. Kids are back at school.

1:22.0

That means that the shoes are beginning to drop on one of the most insidious impacts of the pandemic.

1:30.0

Kids are back. Routine testing is beginning and we're able to measure what people in education circles might call learning loss.

1:40.0

The first of what I imagine would be many new reports just came out showing that kids math and reading skills have plunged since the pandemic.

1:50.0

Math and reading among nine year olds declined at historic levels and in math they declined for the first time ever.

1:59.0

Researchers are estimating that it could take the average student three to five years to catch up.

2:08.0

But as we know there is no average student and we talked a little bit about this on Wednesday show with Arnie Kermannets about the issues that kids face during the pandemic.

2:18.0

But today we're going to talk about solutions because we've got to take a hard look at the reality of where students are now and what role parents, school districts and anyone in the community can play.

2:31.0

Now let me just put this out there. The federal government has put out $122 billion to largest single investment to address schools learning laws and apparently up to about 25 billion of it can be spent on learning catch up.

2:47.0

So we're going to go into talk to two people who are doing that and been doing that even before that Monday started showing up because we need to basically show how it works.

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