Concurrents: Learning is Crucial
Please permit one more set of observations that draw upon insights from the recent global pandemic. After all, pandemics don’t come around so often that we can afford to ignore the impact points of that much global disruption. Let’s learn from it as much as we can. Speaking of learning, the New York Times recently published an editorial calling attention to the evidence of educational learning loss due to the pandemic. It is frighteningly significant. Researchers posit that the school closures that took 50 million U.S. school children out of classrooms at the start of the pandemic may be the most damaging factor in the history of American education, setting back student progress in math and reading by two decades. Turns out remote learning was just not as good as in-person classroom instruction. And that’s just one measurable impact point. Add to this reality the increase in overall absenteeism, declined …
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