I'm actually pretty sceptical about the reliability of this report from McKinsey, mostly because the the primary source data - teacher reports about how far behind their classes are - doesn't strike me as the best indicator for 'learning loss'. But I fear measuring 'where we are in the curriculum' will become a proxy for how much students learned or didn't learn during the pandemic. One place where I agree with the survey is in the assertion that we'll see the effects play out for years to come. No matter what you think about learning loss, I think we can all agree that you can't take someone out of in-person learning for a year and then just put them back without seeing any sort of impact. I can imagine, for example, students chafing at the restrictions of an in-person classroom after having experienced the freedom of the online alternative.
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