{"id":533701,"date":"2023-01-02T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-price-tag-for-covid-school-closures-could-top-28t\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T00:18:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T21:18:09","slug":"the-price-tag-for-covid-school-closures-could-top-28t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-price-tag-for-covid-school-closures-could-top-28t\/","title":{"rendered":"#The price tag for COVID school closures could top $28T"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a413051b4ff2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a413051b4ff2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-price-tag-for-covid-school-closures-could-top-28t\/#%E2%80%9CThe_price_tag_for_COVID_school_closures_could_top_28T%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;The price tag for COVID school closures could top $28T&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThe_price_tag_for_COVID_school_closures_could_top_28T%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;The price tag for COVID school closures could top $28T&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/shutterstock_public-school-classroom.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Add one more grim figure to the toll exacted by disastrous COVID-era school closures: a huge penalty to the lifetime earnings of students forced to suffer through remote schooling, totaling possibly as much as <em>$28 trillion<\/em> (more than the nation\u2019s entire GDP) over the remainder of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>Those figures come from a new study by Eric Hanushek, a Stanford University economist and expert on education, following on his own 2020 study, as well as work published by professors at Harvard and Dartmouth in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new study analyzes the hideous nationwide decline in 8th-grade math scores on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, a k a the nation\u2019s report card. The <em>average <\/em>drop in math scores amounted to eight points \u2014 the largest ever recorded, erasing all gains since 2000, equal to as much as 0.8 missed <em>years<\/em> of school<strong> <\/strong>and a likely lifetime penalty of 5.6% to earnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s only for the average, eight-point decline.<strong> <\/strong>The worst states saw drops of more than <em>10 points<\/em>, implying even bigger future penalties.<strong> <\/strong>The size of a state\u2019s economy also plays a role in the eventual catastrophe, so \u2014 per Hanushek\u2019s models \u2014 California, which saw a six-point score drop, will nonetheless see the biggest absolute state-level economic loss (amounting to $1.3 trillion).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not only earnings that take a hit. Lower NAEP math scores are, per a Harvard study, correlated with higher likelihoods of incarceration, teen pregnancy and the use of food-stamp benefits and lower odds of owning a home, marriage and full-time employment.\u00a0In other words, they are a good predictor of overall success or misery. <\/p>\n<p>The tragedy is that the learning losses were avoidable. Schools were never vectors of COVID transmission. Yet\u00a0the United Federation of Teachers, working hand in glove with the federal government and blue-state pols, conspired to close them during the pandemic anyway. That forced students and parents to accept less-effective remote education. <\/p>\n<p>UFT head Randi Weingarten\u2019s justification for the closures? The cruel, heartless claim that \u201ckids are resilient.\u201d Yet the new study suggests they\u2019ll pay a big price.\u00a0But don\u2019t expect Weingarten or any of her co-conspirators to seriously apologize \u2014 let alone take responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, learning losses can be recovered \u2014 <em>if <\/em>schools return to and surpass their pre-pandemic levels of achievement in the medium term. But given their current crusade to jettison<em> all<\/em> academic standards in favor of woke indoctrination (done in the name of equity, of course) re<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tion seems far-fetched.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s more ugly evidence that on education \u2014 as on every other social issue \u2014 kids come dead last for US progressives.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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