The Pandemic’s Effects on Children’s Education

Santiago Pinto ()

Richmond Fed Economic Brief, 2023, vol. 23, issue 29

Abstract: School closures and switches to hybrid/virtual learning due to the pandemic adversely affected student achievement through several channels, including a decline in skill accumulation and a disruption of peer effects and peer-group formation. Preliminary evidence suggests that losses took place early in the pandemic and that there has not been an apparent recovery. Also, the impact on students has been far from uniform, as economic losses tend to fall more deeply on younger students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Simply returning schools and instructional practices to where they were prior to 2019 will not avoid such losses. A wide range of remediation policies has been suggested, and evidence suggests that instruction practices — such as tutoring and individualized/small group instruction — appear to be effective.

Keywords: Pandemic; education; learning declines; hybrid learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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