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Lost learning crisis: 10 solutions to keep kids in class

Schools with ‘least representative’ cohorts should be banned from growing and more transparency over pupil moves are called for

New council seeks solutions to ‘lost learning’ from absence and exclusions

Research finds 32 million days were lost to unauthorised absence and exclusions in 2022-23

Pandemic learning loss has undone up to two thirds of disadvantage gap progress

Learning loss among poorer primary school pupils as a result of the pandemic has undone as much as two thirds of the progress made over the last 10 years in closing the disadvantage gap, a new government report has warned. The Department for Education has today released the second and third reports from its research project […]

New Covid study finds no reading loss, but confirms maths drop

Interim findings from another study into Covid lost learning have been published today. This one, funded by the Education Endowment Foundation and carried out by FFT Education, investigates whether Covid has widened the attainment gap. Here’s what it found. 1. Gap widens in maths, but not reading… The study found the attainment gap between […]

Lost learning study: Pupils in poorer-intake schools further behind in reading, and 4 other key findings

Pupils in schools with the poorest intakes are further behind in reading than their counterparts in schools with more affluent rolls, a study into lost learning caused by Covid-19 has found. The Department for Education has released the first report from a research project run by Renaissance Learning and the Education Policy Institute, which was […]

Lost learning expert group scrapped by DfE before it’s even set up

A promise to set up an expert group to look at solutions for uneven lost learning across the country has been dropped by the Department for Education. Instead, the task of addressing lost learning will fall within the remit of Sir Kevan Collins who was appointed education recovery commissioner last week. Before exams were cancelled […]