Educational Inequalities and COVID-19

This chapter examines the profound challenges that schools encountered during the shift to distance learning due to the pandemic, particularly affecting younger children who struggled with online education. It reveals how the transition exacerbated existing inequalities, impacting disadvantaged students more severely while misleading narratives about safety during school closures persisted. The discussion also highlights the experiences of daycare facilities that remained open, contrasting their outcomes with the stringent measures imposed on schools and the controversies surrounding school reopening policies in the U.S. and abroad.