Hawaii’s pandemic learning loss recovery could take years
A new independent analysis has found that learning loss among Hawaii’s public school students during the COVID-19 pandemic has ranged from moderate to severe, and the state will need a “multiyear effort” to catch them up to where they should be, a consultant told state Department of Education officials on Wednesday.
The analysis by the Dover, N.H.-based Center for Assessment found that the impact of the pandemic on students’ performance in English language arts was “mostly moderate to large,” and the impact on their mathematics was “mostly large to severe,” state Schools Superintendent Keith Hayashi wrote in a memo that summarizes the report.
