When Covid-19 struck, many schools canceled in-person classes to control the spread, with some remaining virtual for a year or more. Whatever the benefit, these decisions delayed students’ learning. To this day, children are lagging behind the previous criteria for educational progress – the poorest. Children have sacrificed so much in the fight against Covid, a disease that primarily harms those, it is time for the society to bring the students back on track.
As it turns out, there’s a way to improve student learning that even depressed teens won’t complain: give them a financial incentive to study harder.
opinion | How to make up for the learning loss of covid
When Covid-19 struck, many schools canceled in-person classes to control the spread, with some remaining virtual for a year or more. Whatever the benefit, these decisions delayed students’ learning. To this day, children are lagging behind the previous criteria for educational progress – the poorest. Children have sacrificed so much in the fight against Covid, a disease that primarily harms those, it is time for the society to bring the students back on track.
As it turns out, there’s a way to improve student learning that even depressed teens won’t complain: give them a financial incentive to study harder.