Answer Sheet: How Much Learning is Really ‘Lost’ When Children Aren’t in School Buildings?

The conventional wisdom is that most kids are going to be set back substantially in academic terms because of the closing of schools during the pandemic this year, and that achievement gaps between students who live in poverty and those who don’t will explode. Alfie Kohn isn’t so sure. Kohn has been writing and speaking about education, human behavior and parenting for more than two decades, writing 14 books and hundreds of articles for newspapers, magazines and journals.
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