Now, when America saw devastating results, we have witnessed, I actually think a decade or two from now, people will look back at the school shutdowns during COVID and marvel at what an idiotic policy this country pursued as sort of mass psychosis. We have seen, and the data demonstrate this, the largest learning loss in recorded history since we began measuring the learning of our students. Yeah, the biggest learning loss came from the COVID shutdowns and by the way, the racial gap, the gap between black and white students, the gap between Hispanic and white students grew more than the. (09:48–09:57)
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Claims that the COVID-19 school shutdowns resulted in the largest learning loss ever recorded.
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