How Much Are Children Falling Behind In School Because Of COVID-19 Pandemic?

Published June 29, 2020 at 12:40 PM EDT

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Seven-year-old Hamza Haqqani, a 2nd grade student at Al-Huda Academy, uses a computer to participate in an E-learning class with his teacher and classmates while at his home on May 01, 2020 in Bartlett, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Robin Lake, director of the Center for Reinventing Public Education. Lake says over the past few months of online learning, one in five school districts expected real-time teaching, and when school starts in the fall the average student may be one full year behind in math.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.