This pandemic really did a number at so many levels. Who would've thought it would be so far reaching?
https://gothamist.com/news/some-nyc-...ontent=2022121
As New York City enters its third year of the pandemic, public schools are administering assessments to gauge learning loss among students. But multiple teachers and parents worry the tests themselves have become obstacles to students’ progress.
“Everyone is freaking out about learning loss,” said Liat Olenick, a second grade teacher at PS 321 in Brooklyn. “You need more teaching, not more tests.”
In interviews, many teachers and administrators across the city said the assessments take away precious instructional time. They also said the tests are redundant to evaluations they already do with students, and the information they get from them is less useful.
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans for the periodic assessments more than a year ago as studies on the pandemic’s academic impact began trickling in.
Since then, the data has become even more alarming.
Nationally, studies have shown that the pandemic slowed learning in math and reading across the board, with the most severe impacts on Black and Latino students and kids from low-income families. Many New York City students spent a year-and-a-half attending school from home; others attended school on a hybrid schedule that was interrupted by individual school and systemwide closures.
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