COLOMBIA, SC (WRDW / WAGT) – It’s been almost a year since schools started switching to online education.
And now new data shows that learning loss can make more students retain a grade in South Carolina.
The state hired a company to find out where the children are now.
Of the sample analyzed by the company, 46 percent tested “low” in literacy and 32 percent “low” in mathematics.
And the company found that the learning loss in the fall was especially high for fourth and fifth grade students in literacy and fourth to eighth grade math.
State education officials say they also noticed.
There is “clearly a loss in all grades and no one is immune to it,” said Quincie Moore, state director of learning and literacy.
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