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Preliminary research suggests students nationwide will return to school in the fall with roughly 70% of learning gains in reading relative to a typical school year, and less than 50% in math, according to projections by NWEA, an Oregon-based nonprofit that provides research to help educators tailor instruction. It expects a greater learning loss for minority and low-income children who have less access to technology, and for families more affected by the economic downturn.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-coronavirus-remote-learning-lockdown-tech-11591375078

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Perhaps our most important finding is that the mobility gaps by race are far larger than the gaps by geography. We find that there is no region in the United States where it is better to be poor and black compared to being equally poor and white. The expected rank of a poor white child who grew up in the worst region of the country for whites (South Atlantic) would still be higher than for a poor black child growing up in the most advantaged region of the country for blacks (Mountain).

--- Davis, Jonathan and Mazumder, Bhashkar, Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Geography of Intergenerational Mobility (March 12, 2018).

https://ssrn.com/abstract=3138979

I think police brutality is a symptom, not a cause of the discontent we see in the streets. The current recession will freeze or even exacerbate the situation, unless something is done to increase upward mobility of blacks children.