Education nonprofit Learn 4 Life released its fourth annual “State of Education in Metro Atlanta” report this week. The study examines the effect of COVID-19 on student learning and also identifies some innovative ways schools are trying to keep students engaged during the pandemic.
Over the summer, Learn 4 Life issued an analysis that determined where students would be if they’d taken the Georgia Milestones in the spring. (The U.S. Education Department issued waivers for states last school year, which exempted them from the federal requirement of standardized testing.)
“What we found was that … almost three months of lost instruction was devastating for a number of kids that were close to proficiency line,” said Learn 4 Life Executive Director Ken Zeff. “More than 20,000 kids who were on track to be proficient because of the COVID slide … lost ground.”
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