Education leaders had little data on the impacts of school closures on learning at the time of the COVID-19 spring 2020 closures¶
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q1 i? As of spring 2020, education leaders had little data on the impacts of school closures on learning. → Megan Kuhfeld 2020
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Megan Kuhfeld 2020¶
Megan Kuhfeld. (2020). Projecting the impact of the COVID-19 spring school closures on student learning. NWEA Research presentation. https://www.nwea.org/research/publication/projecting-the-impact-of-the-covid-19-spring-school-closures-on-student-learning/
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The presentation's stated motivation: a data gap on closure impacts. The article offers no evidence or statistics for this assertion on this page; it is stated as context for why projections were needed.
"Yet, education leaders have little data on the impacts of school closures on learning."
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Related Claims¶
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Education leaders had little data on the impacts of school closures on learning at the time of the COVID-19 spring 2020 closures |
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Education leaders had little data on the impacts of school closures on learning at the time of the COVID-19 spring 2020 closures |
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