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Stakeholders voice concerns that the effects of COVID-19 on lower-income students could last well beyond the pandemic, as is indicated by the 2022 joint study. Co-author Fabrizio Zilibotti, of Yale, expressed that data indicates that "the pandemic is widening educational inequality and that the learning gaps created by the crisis will persist."
Mid-April: A total of 1.58 billion students globally had been affected by the closure of schools and higher education institutions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] [6] Based on UNESCO Monitoring Reports, 200 countries implemented national closures, affecting about 94% of the world's student population. The percentage of students ...
The same is going on with COVID-19 pandemic and while confined in quarantine, according to research, pandemics can have negative effects on children's mental health, but to a lesser extent, both in terms of internal symptoms (e.g., anxiety or depression) and external symptoms (e.g., behavioural disorders, hyperactivity) and the prevalence of ...
The pandemic left millions of people in the U.S. at-risk when it comes to nutrition and overall health status. The pandemic complicated food insecurity among children, older adults, and undocumented immigrants. Feeding America stated that the estimated number of food-insecure kids could jump from 11 million to an estimated 18 million.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS CoV‑2), have been broad, affecting general society, the global economy, culture, ecology, politics, and other areas. These aspects are discussed across many articles:
CBS News’ Meg Oliver pens a personal essay on the challenges her own family faced during the pandemic and online schooling. She discusses the isolation and heavy toll on her kids from being out ...
Chaos and the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic may have made a catastrophic future seem less remote and action to prevent it more necessary. However, it may also have the opposite effect by having minds focus on the more immediate threat of the pandemic rather than the climate crisis or the prevention of other disasters.
The Daily Yonder shares details from a new study of historically lagging U.S. counties, revealing that some rural areas are recovering from the pandemic better than urban areas.