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Publication Date: 2025
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Addressing Learning Gaps. Education Week. Spotlight
Editorial Projects in Education
The pandemic has exacerbated existing learning gaps and created new challenges for students. This Spotlight explores effective strategies to address these gaps, accelerate learning, and support students' overall well-being. From identifying which students have been disproportionately affected to implementing in-school tutoring, these articles offer valuable perspectives. Discover the importance of consistent phonics instruction, the need for targeted interventions to mitigate learning loss, and more. Articles in this Spotlight include: (1) Students Fell behind during the Pandemic. Who Stayed Behind? (Brooke Schultz); (2) How to Get Summer School Right (Hint: It's Not Just about Academics) (Sarah D. Sparks); (3) Learning Loss May Cost Students Billions in Future Earnings. How Districts are Responding (Mark Lieberman); (4) How In-School Tutoring Benefits Both Attendance and Math Scores (Olina Banerji); (5) An Unorthodox Plan to Pay Students to Write Curriculum Is Raising Achievement (Caitlynn Peetz); (6) Researchers Created a Phonics Program With 'Dramatic' Results. How It Works (Sarah Schwartz); (7) 'Magical': How One Teacher Describes a Pandemic-Recovery Moment (Larry Ferlazzo); and (8) What Schools Can Do about Chronic Absenteeism, Mental Health, and Learning Loss (Michael Fullan and Michael Matsud). [This Spotlight was sponsored by Lincoln Learning Solutions.]
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Disproportionate Representation, Tutoring, Phonics, Intervention, COVID-19, Pandemics, Summer Schools, Achievement Gains, Outcomes of Education, Attendance, Mathematics Achievement, Curriculum Development, Student Participation, Mental Health
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