Re:U.S. Economy Shrinks at 4.8% Pace, Signaling Start of Rec...
by drdec on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:16AM
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TL/DR - Students in poverty lose more ground when not in school than other students. Having an extra three months at home will exacerbate this.
In the US we have a school system where the children are off from school for about ten weeks in the summer. Educators have tested the children at the beginning of the school year and at the end of the school year to study the effect of this.
Students with decent to above average socioeconomic factors tested at about the same level from the end of the year to the beginning of the next.
Students with poor socioeconomic factors tested measurably worse at the beginning of the next school year compared to the end of the previous year.
They also looked at the delta from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year. There was no significant difference in outcomes when socioeconomic status was taken into account.
In the US we have a school system where the children are off from school for about ten weeks in the summer. Educators have tested the children at the beginning of the school year and at the end of the school year to study the effect of this.
Students with decent to above average socioeconomic factors tested at about the same level from the end of the year to the beginning of the next.
Students with poor socioeconomic factors tested measurably worse at the beginning of the next school year compared to the end of the previous year.
They also looked at the delta from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year. There was no significant difference in outcomes when socioeconomic status was taken into account.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000312240707200...