Abstract
In response to COVID-19, U.S. students learned remotely from mid-March to June 2020. At the start of academic year 2020-21, many schools remained remote but others—primarily Catholic and other private schools—reopened. We consider Catholic schooling as a proxy for in-person instruction and use national data from Renaissance Star and MAP Growth assessments to compare the achievement of similar students pre-pandemic, during the height of mitigation strategies, and after most schools reopened. In a departure from pre-pandemic growth patterns, students in Catholic schools showed more growth than those in public schools during the height of mitigation strategies, suggesting the importance of in-person instruction.
DOI
10.15365/joce.2702052024
First Page
76
Last Page
106
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Ponisciak, S.M., & Dallavis, J.W. (2024). Student achievement growth before and during COVID-19: Comparing in-person and remote learning in Catholic and public schools. Journal of Catholic Education, 27(2), 76–106. https://doi.org/10.15365/joce.2702052024
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