Educators have been talking about the achievement gap since at least the 1960s and the publication of the Coleman Report. This year, of course, the gap everyone is focused on is between where we would expect students to be in a typical school year and where they are now, given all the learning disruptions of the past year.
But what happens when those gaps combine, as they have for millions of students around the country? Has the pandemic—and the varied responses to it—exacerbated the achievement gap?
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