Skip to main content

Bloomsbury Home

Unfinished Learning

Parents, Schools, and The COVID School Closures

Unfinished Learning cover

Unfinished Learning

Parents, Schools, and The COVID School Closures

Quantity
In stock
$59.39 RRP $65.99 Website price saving $6.60 (10%)

This product is usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks

Description

COVID-related school closures affected all students. But for students who needed in-person schooling most—students with disabilities, English learners, and students living in poverty—the impact was disproportionate and devastating. One research calls it “the largest increase in educational inequity in a generation.”

Unfinished Learning follows families as they navigate the challenges of virtual learning, from figuring out how to log on to a sometimes unstable school platform to ensuring that their child’s special education needs were addressed. It looks at what data is now showing about which students are (and which students are not) recovering from learning lost during the pandemic.

The book also traces the parent activism that arose as a result of school closures. It explores two elections that followed close on the heels of school reopenings: the 2021 election for governor in Virginia and the 2022 recall of school board members in San Francisco. Many of the conclusions drawn by pundits about both those elections do not fit with either the polling or with parent interviews. Finally, the book offers some suggestions on how schools, families, and communities can prepare for the inevitable next school closures.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: March 13, 2020

Chapter 2: The COVID Spring

Chapter 3: The Permanent “Temporary” School Closures

Chapter 4: The Pandemic’s Lingering Academic Impact

Chapter 5: Was It Always This Contentious?

Chapter 6: Parents, the New “It Girl” of Politics

Chapter 7: Unfinished Learning

Appendix A

About the Author

Product details

Published 21 Nov 2022
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 192
ISBN 9781475866735
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 227 x 151 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Kristen J. Amundson

Kristen J. Amundson is a former teacher, school bo…

Related Titles

Get 30% off in the May sale - for one week only

Environment: Staging