COVID-19 & Endless Summer

Artifact #4: Projections of Reading Levels Throughout COVID-19 Closures

The summer slide where students lose learning from summer vacation was worsened by COVID-19 due to schools being closed for longer.

This led to the COVID-19 slide, in which children demonstrated academic setback patterns associated with summers throughout an extended closure, and COVID-19 slowness, in which students maintained the same level of academic accomplishment as while schools were closed.

Artifact #5: An Endless Summer: How COVID Has Reversed Academic Achievement (Youtube Video) 

This video discusses how summer breaks the rhythm of instruction, leads to forgetting, and necessitates a significant amount of review of material when students return to school in the fall, and how COVID-19 extended the summer effect into an endless summer.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwwQMd55kyo&t=4s