The Education Exchange: The State of Our Schools Five Years after Covid

Low NAEP scores, persistent absenteeism reveal a grim landscape. But there are some rays of light.

Photo of Thomas KaneThomas Kane, the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how school districts have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, and how districts need to pivot from short-term recovery to long-term strategies to improve student outcomes.

The latest edition of the Education Recovery Scorecard is available now.

Kane recently discussed the Education Recovery Scorecard during the Program on Education Policy and Governance’s 2025 Spring Colloquium Series:

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