Why are we still not allowed to talk about Sweden?

Incredible news about learning loss was ignored last fall — and is being ignored again.

Yesterday, Sweden’s education minister expressed confidence that she made the right decision to keep primary and lower secondary schools open throughout the pandemic.

She was responding to a tweet from a World Bank education economist who was sharing a journal article that concluded “there is no evidence of a learning loss regarding early reading skills in Swedish primary school students” and “the decision to keep schools open benefitted Swedish primary school students.”

When this research was initially shared last September in the Swedish press, I was excited by the findings and wrote a Medium post sharing the news. In addition, I tried to interest the New York Times’ education reporters in the research, but I don’t believe anything was ever written.