American schools and the ways students learn have both changed since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago.
After local and federal health officials ordered schools to close in March 2020, most campuses in the U.S. shuttered and educators pivoted to virtual learning. Many students lost fundamental reading and math skills after learning remotely for months and some teachers left the profession altogether by the time schools returned the next school year, national data from the U.S. Department of Education shows.
Educators nationwide have said that their students returned to classrooms after the pandemic with lower academic skills than before and it’s been a challenge to catch kids up.
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