Sunday, March 7, 2021 by Jessica Bakeman (WLRN)
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This week marks one year since school buildings in Florida closed to slow the spread of the coronavirus. National experts are raising alarms that a generation of students could face negative impacts from virtual learning that last a lifetime.
Annette Anderson is a professor of education at Johns Hopkins University.
“If the learning loss is too great, the concern is for how that affects them as future earners in the economy. What jobs will be available for them? Does that mean that we will have a cumulative impact on our GDP as a nation?”
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Virtual learning is exacerbating the inequities in public education. One explanation is unequal access to internet and devices.
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A year ago almost to the day, Philip Preddy walked into the school where he had been an assistant principal for a decade and found elementary students lining the hallway to greet him.
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The closure of millions of schools worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic has stoked fears of a “lost generation” of students. Education experts say this isn’t inevitable, though, and that targeted interventions for the most vulnerable have been shown to make up lost ground.
As with any contingency, planning can make a huge difference. Another lesson is that children can learn coping mechanisms during crises like the current pandemic, skills that can prove valuable for facing future challenges.
Why We Wrote This
Societies that rebuilt their education systems after war and natural disasters may offer lessons on how to close the learning gap opened by the pandemic.