The Education Exchange: Pandemic Learning Loss Leaves Children Five Months Behind in Math, Four Months Behind in Reading—and that May Understate the Damage

A Senior Knowledge Expert at McKinsey & Company, Emma Dorn, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Dorn’s new report, which investigates the effects of learning loss from Covid-19 school shutdowns.

Dorn’s report, “COVID-19 and education: The lingering effects of unfinished learning,” co-written with Bryan Hancock and Jimmy Sarakatsannis, is available now.