In its endorsement of New Mexico’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, the state’s largest newspaper wrote that “learning loss” is an inevitable end result because “prolonged distance learning has worsened a bad scenario. “
At a news convention in Albuquerque in September, Mark Ronchetti set the tone by accusing Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of “systematically” failing public students.
“Where is the plan to reach them?” Ronchetti asked.
If elected, Ronchetti said his education plan would send $1,500 each year to each student for outdoor tutoring for three years.
Later that month, the Republican Governors Association blamed the loss on Lujan Grisham’s “COVID lockdowns. “
Political rhetoric and uncritical politics accelerated in late October, when the 2022 “Nation Report Card” was released through the National Assessment of Educational Progress and ranked last in math reading among states.
Ronchetti cited math scores in his latest crusade ad published Tuesday. Proponents of learning loss argue that end schools and the shift to remote learning in 2020 when there is no COVID-19 vaccine is a mistake.
But interviews with experts in child schooling and fitness show that blaming learning loss for school closures ignores all evidence that schools are sites of COVID transmission and accepts the formula of standardized tests and inflexible school criteria that do not take into account the draped realities found through Mexican New Students. nor the recommendation of teachers.
The purpose of those who characterize learning loss in the virtual school is to never have a virtual school again, said Dr. Brown. Theresa Chapple, maternal and child fitness epidemiologist from the Chicago area.
In his 20-year career, COVID is the fourth pandemic he has experienced, and the drastic maximum.
“The economic effects of having children at home were huge,” she said. “I think that’s what the country is looking for to make sure it doesn’t happen again, so that it no longer has overall control over our economy. “”
That first camp is most commonly made up of right-wingers who say schools want to be open because we want to “get back to normal,” said Chris Buttimer, a scholarship specialist with Boston Public Schools.
But a time when most white people from the center and center-left argue that children are not well-informed in remote learning sessions and that the right reaction would have been to keep schools open at all costs, Buttimer said.
But both sides forget about one of the most important elements missing from almaximum in each and every discussion about learning loss in the United States: the fact that thousands of children have lost a number one parent or caregiver to COVID.
A study published in March found that New Mexico had the third-highest rate of loss of caregivers to COVID in the entire country, and that Native children here lost caregivers to COVID at a rate 10 times higher than white children.
When Chapple lost his father at the age of nine, he did “absolutely no work” that year.
“I sat in a daze,” she says.
Children are noticeable and overlooked in the grieving process, she said.
Children’s ability to be informed is influenced by very undeniable things like feeling at home, having enough food to eat, skills and parents and caregivers caring about being informed, Chapple said. The pandemic is affecting them all.
“It’s appealing that we look at the closest cause: the fact that kids were going to a virtual school or a hybrid school, or whatever kind of schooling they were in that year, and we blame them, and we don’t look at how the pandemic has impacted all those other spaces that influence a child’s ability to learn. “She said.
Grief is a predictor of student learning and student verification scores, Dr. Stuart said. Margaret Thornton, visiting assistant professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia, who studies leadership and policy in education.
“Losing one you enjoy is horrible, but wasting the user worrying about you is excessive trauma and we haven’t looked enough at the effect it has on children and their learning, and other social outcomes,” she said.
The same effects can be seen in young people who haven’t lost a parent to COVID but have one parent hospitalized because of it, Chapple said.
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Most public schools in the U. S. The U. S. government has overworked guidance counselors who in particular trained in grief counseling, Thornton said.
“Increasing the number of grief counselors, other people who can work with children separately and in small teams to meet their needs, could be helpful,” she said.
Thornton said learning loss is a useful or accurate term in the first place.
“The word ‘loss’ implies anything you had and no longer have,” he said. “That’s not what we’re seeing; It’s not what we’re for. “
What those control effects show, he said, is that when you compare eighth-graders in 2022 to eighth-graders in 2019, we can see that students have learned things, but haven’t learned as much as if we hadn’t. I had a pandemic.
“I think we need more of those apple-to-apple comparisons about how to perceive how the pandemic has affected young people, than we do compare today’s youth to young people before the pandemic,” Thornton said.
She issues research suggesting that distance learning itself hasn’t had as much impact on student learning as first thought.
Also lost in the learning loss debate are all the other situations that New Mexico scholars were already facing before the pandemic and that have only gotten worse since then.
This includes asymmetrical access to high-speed web that has left some districts unprepared for remote learning, with most New Mexico students not receiving a quality or culturally competent education as required by the state constitution, some of the highest rates of food distrust in the country. School buildings are unprepared to take care of airborne viruses, risk of expulsion and more than 1,000 vacant qualified educator positions across the state.
“Children who knew all those inequalities before the pandemic, who are exacerbated by our collective refusal to face the basic problem: blank air so we can breathe when we’re inside,” Thornton said.
We have the equipment to take COVID off the air in New Mexico schools, but are we them?
When Buttimer was a postdoctoral study associate at MIT, he and his co-authors conducted a qualitative study on learning loss through interviews with teachers across the country who consistently dismissed the learning loss narrative as a useful way to perceive the fun of academics and teachers during the pandemic.
The researchers found that academics effectively engaged in many norm-aligned topics and that some scholars thrived in virtual environments.
Teachers also argued that scholars have achieved truly extensive and meaningful information achievements in unassessed spaces across school systems, such as their ability to use technology, their ability to self-manage and be informed about racial justice movements in the United States.
“Learning loss is a calculation disguised as a concept: a superficial, naïve, and ridiculous concept,” mathematician John Ewing wrote in December 2020.
Buttimer agrees, saying other people selling the story of learning loss assume that if a child is in a physical classroom and a physical school, that’s where learning happens.
“This concept that school is a position is smart without reservation, where learning occurs and social-emotional desires are fulfilled, I think is a big question mark,” he said.
He said he believes that in a few years, after districts have spent their investment on pandemic relief without a transparent accumulation in check scores, other people on the right will say that “spending more money on schools doesn’t work. “
Along with the anti-CRT and anti-LGBTQ policies that have governed local school forums in recent years, Buttimer said, the loss of will be used to further dismantle public education, Buttimer said.
“That’s my prediction,” he said, “As always, I hope I’m wrong. “
by Austin Fisher, Fuente New Mexico November 3, 2022
In its endorsement of New Mexico’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, the state’s largest newspaper wrote that “learning loss” is an inevitable end result because “prolonged distance learning has worsened a bad scenario. “
At a news convention in Albuquerque in September, Mark Ronchetti set the tone by accusing Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of “systematically” failing public students.
“Where is the plan to reach them?” Ronchetti asked.
If elected, Ronchetti said his education plan would send $1,500 each year to each student for outdoor tutoring for three years.
Later that month, the Republican Governors Association blamed the loss on Lujan Grisham’s “COVID lockdowns. “
Political rhetoric and uncritical politics accelerated in late October, when the 2022 “Nation Report Card” was released through the National Assessment of Educational Progress and ranked last in math reading among states.
Ronchetti cited math scores in his latest crusade ad published Tuesday. Proponents of learning loss argue that end schools and the shift to remote learning in 2020 when there is no COVID-19 vaccine is a mistake.
But interviews with experts in education and child fitness show that blaming learning loss for school closures ignores all evidence that schools are sites of COVID transmission, and accepts the formula of standardized tests and inflexible academic degrees that do not take into account the draped realities faced through new Mexican students. nor the recommendation of the teachers.
– Dr. Teresa Chapple
The purpose of those who characterize learning loss in the virtual school is to never have a virtual school again, said Dr. Brown. Theresa Chapple, child and maternal fitness epidemiologist for the Chicago area.
In his 20-year career, COVID is the fourth pandemic he has experienced, and the drastic maximum.
“The economic effects of having children at home were huge,” she said. “I think that’s what the country is looking for to make sure it doesn’t happen again, so that it no longer has overall control over our economy. “”
That first camp is most commonly made up of right-wingers who say schools want to be open because we want to “get back to normal,” said Chris Buttimer, a scholarship specialist with Boston Public Schools.
But a time when most white people from the center and center-left argue that children are not well-informed in remote learning sessions and that the right reaction would have been to keep schools open at all costs, Buttimer said.
But both sides forget about one of the most important elements missing from almaximum in each and every discussion about learning loss in the United States: the fact that thousands of children have lost a number one parent or caregiver to COVID.
A study published in March found that New Mexico had the third rate of loss of caregivers to COVID nationwide, and that native-born children here lost caregivers to COVID at a rate 10 times higher than white children.
When Chapple lost his father at the age of nine, he did “absolutely no work” that year.
“I sat in a daze,” she says.
Children are noticeable and overlooked in the grieving process, she said.
Children’s ability to be informed is influenced by very undeniable things like feeling at home, having enough food to eat, skills and parents and caregivers caring about being informed, Chapple said. The pandemic is affecting them all.
“It’s appealing that we look at the closest cause: the fact that kids were going to a virtual school or a hybrid school, or whatever kind of schooling they were in that year, and we blame them, and we don’t look at how the pandemic has impacted all those other spaces that influence a child’s ability to learn. “She said.
Grief is a predictor of student learning and student verification scores, Dr. Stuart said. Margaret Thornton, visiting assistant professor at Old Dominion University in Virginia, who studies leadership and policy in education.
“Losing one you enjoy is horrible, but wasting the user worrying about you is excessive trauma and we haven’t looked enough at the effect it has on children and their learning, and other social outcomes,” she said.
The same effects can be seen in young people who haven’t lost a parent to COVID but have one parent hospitalized because of it, Chapple said.
Governor Praises Health Care as She Further Elevates COVID Protections
Most public schools in the U. S. The U. S. government has overworked guidance counselors who in particular trained in grief counseling, Thornton said.
“Increasing the number of grief counselors, other people who can work with children separately and in small teams to meet their needs, could be helpful,” she said.
Thornton said learning loss is a useful or accurate term in the first place.
“The word ‘loss’ implies anything you had and no longer have,” he said. “That’s not what we’re seeing; It’s not what we’re for. “
What those control effects show, he said, is that when you compare eighth-graders in 2022 to eighth-graders in 2019, we can see that students have learned things, but haven’t learned as much as if we hadn’t. I had a pandemic.
“I think we need more of those apple-to-apple comparisons about how to perceive how the pandemic has affected young people, than we do compare today’s youth to young people before the pandemic,” Thornton said.
She issues research suggesting that distance learning itself hasn’t had as much impact on student learning as first thought.
Also lost in the learning loss debate are all the other situations that New Mexico scholars were already facing before the pandemic and that have only gotten worse since then.
This includes asymmetrical access to high-speed web that has left some districts unprepared for remote learning, with most New Mexico students not receiving a quality or culturally competent education as required by the state constitution, some of the highest rates of food distrust in the country. School buildings are unprepared to take care of airborne viruses, risk of expulsion and more than 1,000 vacant qualified educator positions across the state.
“Children who knew all those inequalities before the pandemic, who are exacerbated by our collective refusal to face the basic problem: blank air so we can breathe when we’re inside,” Thornton said.
We have the equipment to take COVID off the air in New Mexico schools, but are we them?
When Buttimer was a postdoctoral study associate at MIT, he and his co-authors conducted a qualitative study on learning loss through interviews with teachers across the country who consistently dismissed the learning loss narrative as a useful way to perceive the fun of academics and teachers during the pandemic.
The researchers found that academics effectively engaged in many norm-aligned topics and that some scholars thrived in virtual environments.
Teachers also argued that scholars have achieved truly extensive and meaningful information achievements in unassessed spaces across school systems, such as their ability to use technology, their ability to self-manage and be informed about racial justice movements in the United States.
“Learning loss is a calculation disguised as a concept: a superficial, naïve, and ridiculous concept,” mathematician John Ewing wrote in December 2020.
Buttimer agrees, saying other people selling the story of learning loss assume that if a child is in a physical classroom and a physical school, that’s where learning happens.
“This concept that school is a position is smart without reservation, where learning occurs and social-emotional desires are fulfilled, I think is a big question mark,” he said.
He said he believes that in a few years, after districts have spent their investment on pandemic relief without a transparent accumulation in check scores, other people on the right will say that “spending more money on schools doesn’t work. “
Along with the anti-CRT and anti-LGBTQ policies that have governed local school forums in recent years, Buttimer said, the loss of will be used to further dismantle public education, Buttimer said.
“That’s my prediction,” he said, “As always, I hope I’m wrong. “
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Austin Fisher is a journalist based in Santa Fe. Il has worked for newspapers in New Mexico and his home state of Kansas, adding the Topeka Capital-Journal, Garden City Telegram, Rio Grande SUN and Santa Fe Reporter. Since beginning a full career in journalism in 2015, she has aimed to use journalism to bring unheard voices in public debates about economic inequality, policing, and environmental racism.
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