Brown Economist Oster: We'll See Impacts of Learning Loss 'More or Less Forever' Due to 'Tremendous Failure by Adults'

On Tuesday's broadcast of CNN's "New Day," CNN Contributor and Brown University Economics Professor Emily Oster stated that due to the "tremendous failure by adults" in handling schools during the coronavirus pandemic, we will see the impacts of learning loss "more or less forever" from students who dropped out and that making up the learning loss for children in school will take five, six years.