WTH Did We Do to Our Kids? Nat Malkus On The Consequences of Pandemic School Closures Four Years After COVID

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, students, parents, and teachers
were told they have to stay home from school in order to stop the
spread of disease. Anyone who questioned that advice was labeled
a conspiracy theorist who does not "trust the science." Now, the
public is waking up to the real effects of “long COVID” -- the
longer students stayed away from school, the more they are
choosing to stay home today, with all the learning and social
loss that implies. Who suffers the most? Minorities and the poor.
Who cares? Not the teachers' unions or the government that caused
this disaster.


Nat Malkus is a senior fellow and the deputy director of
education policy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI),
where he specializes in empirical research on K–12 schooling. He
is a national expert on a range of educational issues that affect
students across the country—including Career and Technical
Education, school choice, Advanced Placement, standardized
testing, and how the nation’s schools responded to the COVID-19
pandemic.


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