Back in April, I wrote about a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which found that Dutch students made “made little or no progress while learning from home”. Now researchers have reported a similar finding in Brazil.
As in the Dutch study, the researchers used rigorous methods to gauge the impact of remote learning on student outcomes. In other words, they didn’t just compare outcomes in 2020 to those the year before.
In São Paulo State (where the study was based) state schools switched to remote learning only at the end of the first quarter, and they continued to teach remotely thereafter. This allowed the researchers to compare the change in outcomes between the first and last quarters of 2020 to the change in outcomes between the same two quarters of 2019.
They looked at two different outcomes: high dropout risk (i.e., whether the student had any math and Portuguese grades on his school record in the relevant quarter), and standardised test scores. When comparing the change in 2020 to the change in 2019, the researchers found large increases in school dropout and learning losses.
Furthermore, they exploited a natural experiment to gauge the impact of switching back to in-person learning. In the fourth quarter of 2020, some municipalities allowed high-schools but not middle-schools to switch back. This allowed the researchers to compare middle- and high-schools in those municipalities with respect to the change in 2020 versus the change in 2019.
Consistent with the previous result, they found that switching back to in-person learning was associated with higher standardised test scores.
In the authors’ own words, their results show that “the societal costs of keeping schools closed in the pandemic are very large”. As such, they argue that “the public debate should move from whether schools should be open or not to how to reopen them safely”.
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Ah, the illusion of choice they strive to present. Wonderful, isn’t it?!
This seems to be in the realm of land use and Natural Capital assets which is a government and UN sustainability 2030 thing regardless of the dirty t-shirt the government wears for the next 5 years.
‘The Theft of the Commons’ as Iain Davis describes it.
I would be interested to see a UN analysis to justify shifting millions from low population density to high density places.
It is all a bit at a time.
Ridiculous increases to fuel bills which, whoops a daisy increases the cost of living, penalties for just driving. Right, next up we will properly crater the living standards of the moderately well off and charge them an absolute fortune for having the nerve to even buy a property – well they should have thought about that before sending their children to private schools.
Next up will be the holiday tax because of course the Very Important People are always too busy for holidays and their “trips abroad” are really “business meetings.”
Food will have to be looked at so a meat tax is inevitable. We can’t have people looking after their health when there are warehouses full of mRNA
poisons“vaccines” for just that purpose.And as Billy’s new brew is due for release this winter we might as well have a gym tax – there’s plenty of room in the 15 minute
ghettoscities for those who want some exercise but there will be supplementary taxes for walking / running shoes. You don’t exercise? Right supplementary “leisure at home tax.”Woodburner eh? Ah that will be an extra £thou to help clean the air.
The shit is going to hit the fan before Christmas mark my words.
“Oh look these people have some very nice Petunia’s and a couple of rather large blue Hydrangea’s in their lovely front garden with some tidy mono blocks on their drive, with a nice grey Mazda C3 sitting on them. They can surely afford more of a council tax bill than the single mum with a garden full of weeds and a smell of cannabis emanating from the property. —-Hammer them. ——The politics of envy is alive and well.——-In the new Labour Government this will become known as the Petunia Tax.
Surely nobody is still buying into all this BS? Oh, yeah, it seems most still are.
instead Of the Tories just doing yah-boo they should explain why such proposals would be wrong. There have been so many Tory tax changes which are economically inefficient they are not entitled to respond unless they give a full analysis.
apart from any other issue, Tory councils have already loaded householders with large additional charges with no apparent benefits; quite the reverse.
Gove? Do me a favour. What a failure.
i think most political operatives have a strong but irrational view of their competence and achievements. Surely Give no less than any other.
he will be rewarded by the Starmer Remainer for services to screwing Brexit. If he had been more successful over the referee dum he might have been enobled before now.
As Shakespeare put it “From fairest things we desire increase that thereby beauties rose might never die”. Such a tactic will be an attack on desire and free enterprise.
What they don’t do is provide value for the money they take off you. So I have to own a pickup but have to go to a commercial dump and pay to get rid of my green waste let alone the cost of a pick up and trailer. Larger places already have additional costs.
Kiernocchio has not insisted that a Labour Government will not raise taxes, his party line is “no income tax, NI or VAT rises for working people”. Remember Gordon Brown’s Stealth Taxes that were banged onto anything that moved or was immobile?
Note the wording: “working people” and watch your laughably small state pension disappear. Also, Kiernocchio is not keeping the triple lock, so don’t expect to ever see another rise in pensions in your lifetime.
I had a look through the unbielievable, childishly scribbled, Labour Manifesto yesterday. It’s a fantasy land without the charm of The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe. It does have a similarity however, Cowardly Lion (Millibacon), The Foul Mouthed Witch (obvious) and their leader The Flat Pack Wardrobe.
It claims that a brand new Nursery, presumably staffed and open 5 days a week costs £11,666.66. It states that they will open 3,000 new Nurseries for £35 million. You thought Ikier tried to throw Diane Abbacus out didn’t you?
Before you vote, have a look at the fantasy document, consider what Labour are not saying. Take note of the fact they say “The time for reviews is over” as they introduce 16 new reviews in advance of implementing them. Bear in mind that anything they put in the manifesto cannot be blocked by The Lords or Parliament.
Then vote accordingly. Deny Labour your vote. They can’t win if you don’t vote for them.
Which part of the USA is that Shutterstock picture from!