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How the pandemic will affect the education of black and Latino children

2020-12-10T12:31:18.590Z


“There is a learning loss occurring. It's real and it's not fair, ”said the authors of a recent report. Hispanic and black students will be 11 to 12 months behind, compared to seven to eight months for white students.


By Michelle Fox - CNBC

The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt education across the country and students are lagging behind, but most of all, more than any other group, black and Hispanic students, according to a report by consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

That will have long-term implications on your income and health,

said Emma Dorn, McKinsey's global director of educational practices and co-author of the Silicon Valley-based report.

"One of the great tragedies of this pandemic is that it has hit the most vulnerable among us hardest," he said.

"It really is imperative now to direct those resources to the students who need them most."

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The report, which looks at various schooling scenarios and how they may affect students, is an update from the previous June report.

At the beginning the school year in August and September,

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tudents were already late for school closings in the spring

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Students in kindergarten through fifth grade only learned 67% of the math and 87% of the reading comprehension that their classmates would have normally learned, according to the report, which cites Curriculum Associates' i-Ready platform.

However, for schools with a student population of more than 50% Latino and Black,

that number dropped to 59% in math and 77% in reading comprehension

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By comparison, schools where more than 50% of the students are white learned 69% of the math and 90% of the reading that they would have normally learned.

Looking to the future

The good news is that schools have adapted to virtual learning, so conditions have improved significantly since the spring, McKinsey found.

However, even in the best of cases, students will be five months behind on average.

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“There is a learning loss occurring.

It's real and it's not fair, "

said report co-author Jimmy Sarakatsannis, a partner in McKinsey's Washington DC office." We're doing better than we were in the spring, but we're not out of the woods yet. "

The firm estimates that around 60% of K-12 students started the school year completely remotely, while 20% started with a hybrid model of some face-to-face and some distance classes.

The remaining 20% ​​returned to their classrooms full time.

The increase in COVID-19 cases means that anything can happen between now and June 2021. If education remains as it is, McKinsey estimates that students, on average, may miss nine months of learning math by the end of the year. school year.

However,

Latino and black students will be 11 to 12 months behind, compared to seven to eight months for white students.

The result is an exacerbation of achievement gaps, as well as an impact later on the purchasing power of the Hispanic and black communities.

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McKinsey's June report found that white students would earn $ 1,348 less per year (a 1.6% reduction) over a 40-year working life, black students would earn $ 2,186 less per year (a 3.3% reduction) and Hispanic students would earn $ 1,809 less per year (3%).

What can you do about it

Significant investments will be needed to make up for lost learning once the pandemic is over, according to the McKinsey report.

An example is the so-called acceleration academies, which consist of small groups of eight to 12 students.

They would get 50 hours of specific instruction over two weeks, which

would aim to give them back 6 months of learning.

It would cost about $ 1,600 per student and $ 42 billion to reach 50% of students in the United States.

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There is also the high intensity tutoring, which is 50 minutes of personal instruction daily for one year.

If they were two students per teacher, it would cost $ 2,500 per student, and they would earn one or two years of learning.

The cost: $ 66 billion to reach half of the students.

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"One of the engines of America's success is the ability of Americans to innovate and mobilize around ambitious goals

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the authors wrote.

For example, the country spent $ 250 billion to put a man on the moon in 1969, they noted.

"Now a similar investment and focus on innovation in education is needed, with deeper collaboration between the public, private and social sectors."

Source: telemundo

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