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Excellent perspective and suggested solutions around how to proceed with student learning. The phrase "learning loss" is problematic for various reasons and also impacts the kinds of solutions that are generated. Excerpt: How we define problems shapes the solutions we develop to solve them. Casting the academic impacts of COVID as "learning loss" is no different. As Steve Holmes, superintendent at Sunnyside Unified School District, a high-poverty, urban district in Tucson, AZ, warned at a conference last month, "No one loses learning, but it becomes part of the narrative and rhetoric. It drives ideas, and more importantly it drives solutions."

Quinn describes how using very specific performance criteria in grading virtually eliminates teacher bias.