
Remote ed was double-whammy for poor students
Remote learning widened achievement gaps in states and districts that kept schools closed the longest, concludes a working paper by Harvard researchers. Students in high-poverty schools paid a far higher price for virtual learning” than those in low-poverty schools, reports Moriah Balingit in the Washington Post. “Students in poverty suffered a double-whammy: They stood to lose the most from virtual learning — and they, on average, spent more time learning remotely,” she writ