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‘The Bottom Has Dropped Out’: Study Confirms Fears of Growing Learning Gaps

11/16/2022

 
Even before COVID, many classrooms had students whose learning spanned 7 grade levels. In 2021-22, that range got even wider...

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Student test scores plummeted in math and reading after the pandemic, new assessment finds

9/3/2022

 
Math and reading scores for 9-year-olds in the US fell between 2020 and 2022 by a level not seen in decades, a foreboding sign of the state of American education two years after the Covid-19 pandemic began....
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Hartford superintendent of schools: District has vacancies in 14% of all positions, working to end rise in student chronic absenteeism

9/3/2022

 
Hartford Public Schools Superintendent Leslie Torres-Rodriguez is excited to welcome students back to the capital city’s classrooms on Monday, Aug. 29, for a school year that aims to address the staffing, attendance and mental health challenges that were exacerbated by the pandemic....
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First lady Jill Biden visits Connecticut program working to address summer, pandemic learning loss

7/20/2022

 
First Lady Jill Biden visited a New Haven summer camp Wednesday alongside U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to kick off their national summer learning tour...
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5 Things to Know About How the Pandemic Has Deepened Summer Learning Loss

7/12/2022

 
This summer could be a make-or-break period for students working to regain academic ground lost during the disruptions of the last few years...
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‘Swimming Wasn’t for Us’

7/4/2022

 
The nation’s first Black-owned pool club aims to teach hundreds of children to swim this summer, helping to close a dangerous racial gap in the process...
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Trinity College students' analysis finds state far from promises made to desegregate Hartford schools

6/5/2022

 
A group of Trinity College students spent a semester taking the 87-page Sheff v. O'Neill agreement filled with hard-to-digest numbers and legal jargon and translating it into a few graphics to help the public understand how far the state is from the agreement's goals...
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Many predicted some kind of COVID slide in learning. Test results show how bad it is.

8/26/2021

 
​(CNN)Children are heading back to school with the academic cost of the pandemic now being laid bare. Tumbling test scores reveal how much learning was not absorbed by students driven to virtual schooling when their classrooms were closed overnight, often staying shut for over a year........
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Fighting the 'corona slide'

6/16/2020

 
This summer could be a make-or-break period for students working to regain academic ground lost during the disruptions of the last few years . . . 
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Valley Life Article

4/23/2020

 
For the second year in a row, Simsbury’s Westminster School has not become dormant over the summer months while its students are away on vacation...
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Kathleen Devaney, Executive Director
kdevaney@westminster-school.org
860-408-3006

Kelly Wosleger, Program Director
Kwosleger@westminster-school.org
860-408-3097
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Horizons At Westminster

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