ERIC Number: EJ1324040
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 21
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Disparities in Educational Access in the Time of COVID: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Panel of American Families
Haderlein, Shira K.; Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky; Polikoff, Morgan S.; Silver, Daniel; Rapaport, Amie; Garland, Marshall
AERA Open, v7 n1 Jan-Dec 2021
We use data collected between April 2020 and March 2021 from the Understanding America Survey, a nationally representative internet panel of approximately 1,450 households with school-age children, to document the access of American households to K-12 education during the COVID-19 crisis. We also explore disparities by parent race/ethnicity, income, urbanicity, partisanship, and grade level (i.e., elementary school vs. middle/high school). Results shed light on the vectors of inequality that occurred throughout the pandemic in access to technology, instruction, services (e.g., free and reduced-price meals), and in-person learning opportunities. Our work highlights the equity implications of the pandemic and suggests the importance of encouraging widespread in-person learning opportunities and attendance by the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year for addressing COVID-19's educational effects.
Descriptors: Access to Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Access to Computers, Internet, Disadvantaged, Disproportionate Representation, Elementary Secondary Education, Children, Adolescents, Racial Differences, Ethnicity, Family Income, Political Attitudes, Equal Education, Rural Urban Differences, Parent Background, Family (Sociological Unit), Surveys
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Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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