Question

Write down the impact of Covid- 19 on education.​

Answer 1

• The COVID-19 pandemic is first and foremost a health crisis. Many countries have (rightly) decided to close schools, colleges, and universities.
• The crisis crystallizes the dilemma policymakers are facing between closing schools (reducing contact and saving lives) and keeping them open (allowing workers to work and maintaining the economy).
• The severe short-term disruption is felt by many families around the world: homeschooling is not only a massive shock to parents’ productivity but also children’s social life and learning.
• Teaching is moving online, on an untested and unprecedented scale.
• Student assessments are also moving online, with a lot of trial and error and uncertainty for everyone. Many assessments have simply been canceled.
• Importantly, these interruptions will not just be a short-term issue, but can also have long-term consequences for the affected cohorts and are likely to increase inequality.
• Going to school is the best public policy tool available to raise skills. While school time can be fun and can raise social skills and social awareness, from an economic point of view the primary point of being in school is that it increases a child’s ability.
• The idea is that they continue their education at home, in the hope of not missing out too much.
• Families are central to education and are widely agreed to provide major inputs into a child’s learning, as described by Bjorklund and Salvanes (2011).
• The current global-scale expansion in homeschooling might at first thought be seen quite positively, as likely to be effective.
• Parents supplement a child’s maths learning by practicing counting or highlighting simple maths problems in everyday life, or they illuminate history lessons with trips to important monuments or museums.

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