The Education Week Impacts of COVID-19 on Education is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on how COVID-19 is reshaping tech use in education, how the pandemic is widening inequities, and how teachers are employing additional social-emotional learning techniques within their curriculum.
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Classroom Technology
From Our Research Center
How COVID-19 Is Shaping Tech Use. What That Means When Schools Reopen
Surveys by the EdWeek Research Center show teachers seeing their ability to use technology improving during school closures, but huge tech-equity issues could get worse.
Education Funding
Devastated Budgets and Widening Inequities: How the Coronavirus Collapse Will Impact Schools
The recession brought on by the pandemic will make inequalities in schools worse.
School & District Management
Lost Learning Time Compounds Over Summers. Students Are Taking an Extra Hit Right Now
More than half of students consistently experience summer learning loss throughout their primary grades, finds a national study, with compounding summer deficits leaching away nearly 40 percent of students' yearly progress.
Classroom Technology
Q&A
How Technology, Coronavirus Will Change Teaching by 2025
Professors Elliot Soloway and Cathie Norris reflect on how ed tech use in schools has changed in the last five years, and then predict what might lie ahead in a time of massive disruption in K-12.
Teaching Profession
Round-the-Clock Communication Is Exhausting Teachers
Many teachers say they’ve been getting messages 24/7 during school closures, and that they feel pressure to be “always on” for students and parents.
Education
Opinion
Social-Emotional Learning Is the Elephant in the Room: Three Challenges to Consider
As teachers and students prepare for the fall, regardless of how they will come back together, social-emotional issues will need to be addressed for learning to occur.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
Stress Can Lead to Student Failure. New Research Offers a Path for Success
When students are overwhelmed, their schoolwork suffers. But two growth-mindset researchers, Jamie M. Carroll and David Yeager, say teachers can help increase kids' resilience.