ERIC Number: ED615616
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jun
Pages: 71
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Learning at Home While Under-Connected: Lower-Income Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Katz, Vikki; Rideout, Victoria
New America
This report presents the findings of a nationally representative, probability-based telephone survey of more than 1,000 parents of children ages three to 13, all with household incomes below the national median for families in the United States (i.e., $75,000). The survey was conducted in March and April of 2021: one year into the pandemic, and a crucial turning point. Parents could reflect on a full year of remote learning and pandemic parenting, and also look forward--thanks to the proliferation of vaccines--to their children's full and safe return to in-person schooling in the fall. But this survey goes beyond documenting families' challenges. We also uncover what parents feel they have learned through this pandemic year, from increased confidence in their ability to help their child with schoolwork to greater comfort communicating with teachers and developing a deeper understanding of their child's learning patterns. And we look ahead to the next school year, delving into what parents think schools' priorities should be for smoothing their children's transitions to, or back into, the classroom in the fall of 2021. [Additional funding for this report is from Noggin.]
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Parent Attitudes, Low Income Groups, School Closing, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Barriers, Self Efficacy, Parent Role, Parent Teacher Cooperation, School Schedules, Access to Computers, Internet, Educational Media, Reading Habits, Family Role, Poverty, Ownership, Hispanic Americans, African Americans
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Publication Type: Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
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Language: English
Sponsor: Overdeck Family Foundation; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Grable Foundation; Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Authoring Institution: New America; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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