U.S. children confront severe learning losses over COVID-19: WSJ


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Wednesday, 07 Sep 2022

NEW YORK, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- For two years, American schools and researchers have wrestled with pandemic-era learning setbacks, resulting mostly from a lack of in-person classes, reported The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday.

National data show those children who were learning to read earlier in the pandemic have the lowest reading proficiency rates in about 20 years.

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