How Can New Jersey Drive Students Towards Literacy?
JerseyCAN acknowledges its success pushing the State Legislature to pass two bills, sponsored by Sen. Teresa Ruiz and signed by Gov. Phil Murphy, that require school districts...
NJ Students Suffer Serious Learning Setback from Pandemic, Study Shows
By: Janice Kirkel at WBGO
Published on: March 30, 2021
A study by the education nonprofit JerseyCAN found that the pandemic and virtual learning have cost students 30% of expected learning in English and 36% in math.
Executive Director Patricia Morgan said students of color have suffered even more profoundly.
“Troubling is that for our Black and Latinx students, they have even more lost learning,” she said. “The most was for our Black students who lost 43% of learning in English and 50% of learning in math.”
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