Unfinished Learning: Parents, Schools, and The COVID School Closures

COVID-related school closures disproportionately affected students with disabilities, English learners, and students living in poverty, leading to "the largest increase in educational inequity in a generation." Unfinished Learning follows families as they navigate virtual learning and explores the impact on student learning and parent activism. It also offers suggestions on how schools, families, and communities can prepare for future closures.

Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 17 December 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

COVID-19-related school closures had a significant impact on all students, but they disproportionately affected students with disabilities, English learners, and those living in poverty. A research study called it "the largest increase in educational inequity in a generation." The book "Unfinished Learning" follows families as they navigate the challenges of virtual learning, including figuring out how to log on to a sometimes unstable school platform and ensuring that their child's special education needs are addressed. It also explores the parent activism that arose as a result of school closures and the two elections that followed close on the heels of school reopenings: the 2021 election for governor in Virginia and the 2022 recall of school board members in San Francisco. The book offers suggestions on how schools, families, and communities can prepare for the inevitable next school closures.

Weight: 436g
Dimension: 159 x 237 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781475866728