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Diliberti, Melissa; Schwartz, Heather L.; Hamilton, Laura S.; Kaufman, Julia H. – RAND Corporation, 2020
The emergence of COVID-19 in the United States in spring 2020 forced nearly all U.S. schools to transition rapidly to remote learning. However, a minority of U.S. public schools were prepared for a crisis on the level of COVID-19. Using responses to the American Educator Panels, RAND researchers investigate how schools' pre-pandemic planning…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, School Closing
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Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Grant, David – RAND Corporation, 2021
This report provides the survey questions and weighted responses from a July 2021 survey of parents concerning school hesitancy and preferences for COVID-19 safety practices in schools in the United States. The results are intended to inform school districts' and health officials' planning for operating schools in fall 2021. [For the survey…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Parent Attitudes
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Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Grant, David – RAND Corporation, 2021
This document provides the survey methods appendix that accompanies the study, "Will Students Come Back? A July 2021 Parent Survey about School Hesitancy and Parental Preferences for COVID-19 Safety Practices in Schools. Research Report. RR-A1393-2" (ED615819). The appendix provides information about the sample, survey instrument, and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Parent Attitudes
Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Berdie, Lisa; Grant, David; Hunter, Gerald P.; Setodji, Claude Messan – RAND Corporation, 2021
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, progressively more complete data have shed light on the tremendous variation in districts' approaches to schooling. Some districts have provided fully remote learning since the outset of the pandemic, some have mostly provided in-person learning, and others have fallen somewhere in between. In this report,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Rural Urban Differences, School Districts
Hamilton, Laura S.; Grant, David; Kaufman, Julia H.; Diliberti, Melissa; Schwartz, Heather L.; Hunter, Gerald P.; Setodji, Claude Messan; Young, Christopher J. – RAND Corporation, 2020
This technical report provides information about the sample, survey instrument, and resultant data for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surveys that were administered to principals and teachers via RAND's American Educator Panels (AEP) in spring 2020. The AEP COVID-19 surveys focused on how teachers and school leaders navigated the…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools
Kaufman, Julia H.; Diliberti, Melissa; Hunter, Gerald P.; Grant, David; Hamilton, Laura S.; Schwartz, Heather L.; Setodji, Claude Messan; Snoke, Joshua; Young, Christopher J. – RAND Corporation, 2020
In spring 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to an unprecedented and sweeping shift in the landscape of public schooling in the United States. Beginning in March, schools across the country closed their doors and adopted remote learning supports that varied in degree and type. In May 2020, researchers from the RAND…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Disease Control
Schwartz, Heather L.; Grant, David; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Hunter, Gerald P.; Setodji, Claude Messan – RAND Corporation, 2020
U.S. school districts have taken widely varied approaches to reopening public schools for the 2020-2021 school year. The divergence stems from the highly localized approach to both schooling and addressing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and differences in COVID-19 transmission rates among communities. To develop a national…
Descriptors: Public Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing