Education Recovery Scorecard

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The Education Recovery Scorecard provides the first opportunity to compare learning loss at the district level across the country, providing opportunities to further understand how time remote, federal dollars expenditure, and other factors impacted students during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

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“The pandemic was like a band of tornadoes that swept across the country. Some communities were left relatively untouched, while neighboring schools were devastated. The Education Recovery Scorecard is the first
high-resolution map of the tornadoes’ path to help local leaders see the magnitude of the damage and guide local recovery efforts.”

CEPR Faculty Director Thomas J. Kane

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What Do Changes in State Test Scores Imply for Later Life Outcomes?

A new paper from Thomas J. Kane, Elena Doty, Tyler Patterson, and Douglas O. Staiger investigates investigate the past relationship between NAEP scores and students’ later life outcomes.

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About the Project

Tom Kane at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard and Sean Reardon at Stanford’s Educational Opportunity Project have collaborated to provide the first view of district-level losses between 2019 and 2022. Many states have reported results on Spring 2022 assessments, but because each state sets its own proficiency levels, it’s not possible to compare changes in proficiency rates on different states’ tests. We use the 2022 NAEP scores to put the state proficiency levels on the same scale, and then report comparable declines by district and subgroup across the country. 

Until now, many parents and policymakers have had no way to know how the national trends have touched their students. According to Learning Heroes, over 90% of parents still think their child is at or above grade level. Our hope is that these resources will prompt  local communities to plan more ambitious catch-up efforts, using the $190 billion in federal pandemic relief aid. The interactive maps and corresponding data you will find on this site also provide insight on time spent in remote instruction, federal ESSER allocations and instructional spending per student. When available, achievement data are disaggregated by race and poverty status to provide a complete picture of the disparities in learning loss across the country.

 

The Education Recovery Scorecard is supported by funds from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Kenneth C. Griffin and the Walton Family Foundation.  The Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA) is based on research funded in part by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.