A recent study from Georgia State University shows that the return to in-person learning didn’t substantially improve student achievement in Clayton, DeKalb and Fulton counties. Tim Sass is the director of GSU’s Metro Atlanta Policy Lab for Education (MAPLE), which conducted the research. He says achievement increased a little once students returned to school, but not much.
“What we found was that the return in-person learning sort of stopped the decline in achievement growth, but there wasn’t much improvement,” he says. “So, things kind of bottomed out. In-person learning alone doesn’t seem to be enough to get kids back to where they were pre-pandemic.”
DeKalb and Clayton counties stayed remote longer than Fulton, which offered a hybrid model at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year.
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