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Research video news brief: Projecting the potential impact of COVID-19 school closures on academic achievement
October 2020

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In this AERA video brief, Megan Kuhfeld shares major findings and implications of preliminary projections of the potential impact of COVID-19-related school closures in spring 2020 on student learning, published this month in Educational Researcher.
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