ATLANTA — Five of the 19 students in teacher Chelsea Grant's third grade classroom are reading below grade level.
Grant's students —"my babies" as she calls them — spent the better part of the 2020-2021 school year learning from home. It was first grade, a crucial year for learning to read.Mounting evidence from around the country shows that students who spent most of the time learning remotely during the 2020-2021 school year, many of them Black and Latino, lost about half of an academic year of learning. That's twice as much as their peers who studied in person that year.
Atlanta has taken more drastic steps than most other cities to make up for that lost learning. The 50,000-student district was one of the only school systems to extend the school day. Elementary school students attend seven hours of school, half an hour more than before the pandemic. Her mother, Diamond Anderson, interjects:"I have seen her tremendously improve … and I'm grateful for any extra help," she said.
Listen now and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS Feed | Omny Studio Even with all Atlanta is doing, some experts are wondering if that city, never mind other districts, is doing enough to help students become proficient readers and master other subjects.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
DBChirpy That’s parental failure. Not teacher, not student. Granted parents are not educators, but in the end, the students success depends on their parent.
And media, like the daily star, are shocked that this could have happened.
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