Cost of the COVID School Shutdowns

Parents: A new McKinsey study examined spring 2021 test results for 1.6 million students in grades 1 through 6 across the U.S., then compared their performance with that of similar students pre-pandemic. The pandemic-era children were, on average, about four months behind in reading and five months behind in math. and that is the optimistic scenario. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-cost-of-the-school-shutdowns-mckinsey-report-11627510747?reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink