What are the stakes? How bad can it get?

Here’s an email from the “Campaign for Grade-Level Reading” that summarizes the June 2020 McKinsey & Company report, COVID-19 and Student Learning in the United States: The Hurt Could Last a Lifetime.

  • All students will lose ground — from 3–4 to 12–14 months.

  • Black and Hispanic students will lose 3–5 months more than white students. Low-income students will lose 12+ months.

  • Up to 1.1 million students could drop out of high school for COVID-19-related reasons.

  • These impacts will produce an estimated GDP loss of $173 billion to $271 billion per year.

SOURCE: McKinsey & Company

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