Many worry about ‘learning loss,’ but has this really been a lost year for CPS students? – Chicago Sun-Times*

Elaine Allensworth, the director of the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, said, “We don’t know at this point the extent to which students might be behind where they otherwise would be. It’s really elevated this concern, but it’s elevated it to the point where people are saying this is a fact that all of these students are really far behind, and we have this lost generation, when we don’t actually know that that’s the case, and there are reasons to think that’s not the case.”