
"Parents think their children are learning in school -- and enjoying it, reports Caitlynn Peetz in Education Week. Students are a lot less confident about their learning, and less enthusiastic about their schoolwork, according to a Brookings study.
The perception gap may contribute to achievement gaps: Parents won't push students to do more if they think they're already doing fine.
Sixty percent of students say they learn a lot in school, the survey found. Seventy-eight percent of parents think their children are learning a lot. "Meanwhile, 41 percent of students say they love school and 71 percent of parents believe their kids do — a gap of 30 percentage points," reports Peetz.
"Past surveys have found that parents often underestimate how often their children miss class and that they can be unaware when their children are struggling in class — oftentimes because report cards don’t paint an accurate picture," she writes.
During remote schooling, teachers were urged to relax expectations. "Student achievement has slid to historic lows since the start of the pandemic," Peetz writes. But "classroom grades have inched up."
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