Stop destroying education ya fucking ghouls.
Economists are predicting that this generation, with such a significant educational gap, will experience diminished lifetime earnings and become a significant drag on the economy.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
It also set student progress in math and reading back by two decades and widened the achievement gap that separates poor and wealthy children.
This is a bipartisan issue, and parents, teachers and leaders in education have a role to play as well, in making sure that addressing learning loss and other persistent challenges facing children receives urgent attention.
The challenges have been compounded by an epidemic of absenteeism, as students who grew accustomed to missing school during the pandemic continue to do so after the resumption of in-person classes.
Millions of young people have joined the ranks of the chronically absent — those who miss 10 percent or more of the days in the school year — and for whom absenteeism will translate into gaps in learning.
This fall, The Associated Press illustrated how school attendance has cratered across the United States, using data compiled in partnership with the Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee.
“It is magical thinking to expect they will make this happen without a major increase in instructional time,” as the researchers Tom Kane and Sean Reardon recently argued.
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I’ve been wondering if my 15 year old should repeat a year (they’ll kill me!), they’ve been falling behing majorly and still fail to attend a full week
Failing to attend a full week…will Gen Alpha finally bring the 4 (or even 3) day workweek to life out of necessity?