COVID-19 and Schools: Policy, Stakeholders, and School Choice

The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on U.S. teachers, students, parents, teaching practices, enrollments, and institutional innovations. This book provides empirical research on the educational and health impacts of the pandemic, including differences in responses across states and school sectors. It also explores the catalyst for school choice movements and the long-term student learning loss and health and socioemotional impacts of COVID-19 closings.

Format: Hardback
Length: 262 pages
Publication date: 07 November 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the education system in the United States, affecting teachers, students, parents, teaching practices, enrollments, and institutional innovations. This book, featuring contributions from leading experts, presents peer-reviewed research on the various educational impacts of the pandemic, which are expected to last for decades.

The pandemic presented the greatest crisis in the history of U.S. schooling, with all 50 states, thousands of school systems, and tens of thousands of private and charter schools responding in diverse ways. This book brings together peer-reviewed, empirical research on how U.S. schools responded to the crisis and the educational and health impacts that are likely to persist for many years. Contributors explore how the U.S. responses differed from those in other countries, with slower reopening and significant variations in reopening and modes of instruction across states and school sectors.

Compared to European countries, the U.S. responses to reopening schools were more influenced by political factors than health or educational needs, although this was less true in market-based private and charter schools. The pandemic catalyzed school choice movements across the U.S., with many parents exploring alternatives to traditional public schools, including the emergence of small, parent-created or "pod" schools, which is likely to have a lasting impact.

The long-term student learning loss and health and socioemotional impacts of COVID-19 closures may well persist for decades, as detailed in the papers presented in this volume. The book concludes by exploring teacher experiences across different sectors following the pandemic.

COVID-19 and Schools is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, advanced students of education, education policy and leadership, educational research, and policymakers. It provides insights into the challenges and opportunities faced by the education system during this unprecedented time and offers valuable recommendations for rebuilding and improving the education system in the post-pandemic era.

Weight: 660g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032546865