The Globe and Mail – Nicole Edwards
“The study, conducted in the Netherlands, showed children experience 5.6 weeks of learning delay for every eight weeks of school closure, despite equitable school funding and high access to broadband internet. For provinces like Ontario, where students missed 20 weeks of in-person learning between March 2020 and May 2021, these findings indicate that kids in both public and private schools could be starting the year with significant gaps in learning compared to previous years.” (more)