If there is any silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is exposing a long-standing and untenable status quo in American society, characterized by growing disparities that deny equitable access to educational opportunity for many students, said Michael Feuer, dean of the George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development.
For example, he said that although average learning losses associated with COVID-19 school disruptions have been perhaps lower than parents and educators initially anticipated, the revelation of significantly disproportionate outcomes along socioeconomic lines tells a familiar story about inequality in education.