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Hello!
This is Mila Koumpilova, one of the reporters at Chalkbeat here in Chicago.
My colleague Matt Barnum has a fascinating piece about a striking pattern on national tests: Scores plunged more sharply for girls during the pandemic, and they have been slower to recover, if at all in some cases. As Matt points out, boys’ advantage in middle school math is larger now than at any point since these tests were first administered in the 1970s.
And the thing is, researchers don’t really have a solid explanation for why America’s “learning recession” has hit girls harder. Still, Matt offers some interesting hypotheses.
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What We’re Reading
City Council calls for tighter review of NYC school system contract, New York Times (Paywall)
As a teacher, students jeering AI at graduation gives me hope, USA Today (Opinion)
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