The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in historic drops in academic achievement for America’s students. However, not all of the pandemic’s effects on students were academic. COVID-19-related school closures, economic upheavals, isolation, and stress led to a rapid falloff in what had already been a decade-long decline in students’ mental health. In 2021, 42% of high school students felt persistently sad or hopeless, 29% experienced poor mental health, and 22% seriously considered attempting suicide (CDC, 2023).
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On October 3, 2023, the RESTART Network hosted the 2023 Virtual National Symposium featuring the National Association of State Boards of Education and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The webinar included presentations from researchers and policy leaders who are leading efforts to advance academic recovery.
This article analyzes public school mobility and enrollment post-pandemic in Virginia.
This opinion article highlights the need for expanding tutoring within the context of larger systems and practices.
This brief shares results from interviews with 68 central office and program leaders to learn about COVID-19 recovery interventions.
This article aims to provide practical, research-based strategies for using technology to monitor Individualized Education Plan (IEP) goal progress.
This study analyzes traditional public and charter school reopenings for the 2020-21 school year in five urban districts. We provide a rich and theoretically grounded description of how and why educational leaders made reopening decisions in each of our case districts.
This study used 2021 Household Pulse Survey data (April to July) to determine the extent adults (parents; n = 7,238) with disabilities’ households had access to educational devices and Internet access for school-aged children, including compared to nondisabled adults (n = 64,046).
This report provides recommendations for programs, supports, and interventions to counteract the negative effects of the pandemic on child and family well-being and offers a path forward to recover from the harms of the pandemic, address inequities, and prepare for the future.
This article describes the perspective of educators and other school-affiliated service providers on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and wellbeing of adolescent resettled refugees and access to and quality of education and support services for adolescent resettled refugees.