Low-income and minority students are falling even farther behind their peers in the wake of pandemic-era school closures and hybrid learning, according to a new report released by MassEduEquity.
Kindergarten students sit in their classroom on the first day of in-person learning at Maurice Sendak Elementary School in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
The gap that existed before the pandemic has widened, advocates said. The percentage of Black and Latinx third graders reading on grade level dropped from 38 percent to 32 percent and 28 percent, respectively, while white students stayed steady at around 61 percent, the report found. "We are in a moment right now of immense opportunity with substantial financial and community resources on the table to really do things differently," Natasha Ushomirsky, state director for Massachusetts at The Education Trust, said during a MEEP panel Wednesday."What we need is the will and the leadership to really take advantage of this moment."
Advocates also recommend implementing a statewide pay scale for early childhood educators, who are often paid less than K-12 public school teachers. Devin Morris, co-founder and executive director of The Teacher's Lounge, a nonprofit that aims to recruit and retain educators of color in Greater Boston and throughout the state, said it is important for students of color to have shared lived experiences with the educators in their classrooms.
Ushomirsky referenced the"mirrors and windows" educational philosophy, an idea that students learn best when they see their own identities in the curriculum and classroom, as well as when they have opportunities to learn about others' experiences.
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