In this special rebroadcast, we revisit research from the Educational Opportunity Project, also known as the Education Recovery Scorecard. The core finding: Students made larger than expected gains as reflected in standardized tests in math and reading, but the gap between students from wealthy and poor communities has only widened. Still, the data highlights several states and districts that succeeded in helping students to fully recover academically and that closed some of the gaps between student subgroups. 

In this session, we were fortunate to hear directly from the lead researchers, as well as state and district leaders who have made notable progress.      

Join us for this rebroadcast to explore the results, insights and implications of the latest Education Recovery Scorecard data from the 2022−2023 school year. Lead researchers of the Scorecard — Thomas Kane, Ph.D., of Harvard Graduate School of Education and Sean Reardon, Ed.D., of Stanford Graduate School of Education — discuss the results and what that means for our progress overall on academic recovery, as well as where performance gaps among students have widened. We were also joined by Colorado’s commissioner of education and three superintendents (from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Birmingham, Alabama; and Nashville, Tennessee) who share the strategies they used to help their students recover academically. Finally, a leader from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education share strategies and resources the Department is offering to help districts and schools support academic recovery and take on inequities in resources and learning opportunities.