February 11, 2025
Michigan schoolkids struggle with pandemic learning loss, but there’s a bright spot
While Michigan placed 44th nationwide in post-pandemic reading recovery, recovery in math has been much better according to the Education Recovery Scorecard. Deborah Loewenberg Ball says this improvement is likely due to spending on teachers’ professional development and progress should continue over time.
We now understand better that teaching is where the work happens for children. We’re constantly trying to pump up test scores and children’s learning without ever really talking about teaching. And what has been happening in elementary math and really math in general, there has been more work helping teachers teach math, more opportunities to learn the math, more opportunities to think about how you address equity, how you address the dis-equities in math learning.