Educational inequality and COVID-19: Who takes advantage of summer schools and other remedial measures?: A latent mediation model analysis based on representative data from Austrian parents of school-aged children.

ABSTRACT: In spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a global crisis with far-reaching effects, not least on education. Since the beginning of the pandemic, its impact on learning losses and increasing educational inequality has been widely discussed. While empirical evidence of rising educational inequality and learning loss is steadily growing, at the same time little is known about the families who are interested in remedial measures like summer schools to bridge the negative effects of the pandemic and school closures. The present study addresses this lack of research by providing an initial examination of the empirical evidence of mechanisms underlying parental choice of remedial measures. We take a closer look on which parents are particularly attracted by remedial measures by using cross

SUBMITTER: Postlbauer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9483411 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature