This brief from UVA EdPolicyWorks details how school divisions in Virginia responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by increasing their use of remote technology for instructional purposes.
Research on Education Strategies to
Advance Recovery and Turnaround
This report from the Public Policy Institute of California documents how the pandemic altered Californian households and shows that distance learning has widened gaps for children of color, children in low-income families, and children of less-educated parents.
In 2021, two Education Innovation and Research (EIR) competitive preference priorities were issued to address the impact of Covid and promote equity in Pre-K-12 education.
This paper examines academic recovery in 12 mid- to large-sized school districts across 10 states during the 2021–22 school year.
The disruptions to schooling created by the COVID-19 pandemic prompted nationwide concern about negative impacts on academic proficiency, particularly for vulnerable student populations. Pennsylvania’s 2021 statewide assessments offered the first opportunity since the pandemic began to assess how students across the Commonwealth were faring, whether achievement gaps had widened, and how remote learning affected student performance.
Proficiency rates on Pennsylvania’s statewide assessments in 2022 remain below pre-pandemic levels, especially in math, but there is evidence that student learning has begun to recover.