Young people in our community face a pandemic-related learning crisis that requires our collective response immediately to ensure we don’t lock in educational inequities for a generation.
The poverty gap in access to technology and online learning was exposed by COVID-19. Kids in poverty not only faced technology-related barriers, but they also faced greater food insecurity and the loss of in-school support structures such as counseling and school-based health-related services.
We can do this in three ways.
First, support youth involvement in intensive tutoring, which research shows works best to overcome pandemic-related learning loss.
Second, we need to provide holistic support for our youth who lost the most ground educationally during the pandemic.
Third, we need broader community solutions to support youth experiencing both poverty and pandemic-related learning loss.
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