Controversies behind COVID learning loss: Historical issues, current measurements, and future strategies

COVID learning loss has sparked fierce debate among stakeholders in education. There are debates concerned educators about ways to understand reports, methods measure loss, and strategies recover from loss. In this article, we unpack opposing perspectives on these three controversies with the goal of extracting useful recommendations guide post-pandemic education revival. Drawing structural inequity theory, article reviews through historical, current, future lenses respectively: (1) Should be talking differential loss? (2) Are measuring appropriately? (3) Which recovery plans should prioritize address Within each controversy, makes suggestions how practitioners may make sense controversy integrate take-aways them into their work.