Report: Learning Inequalities During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Report authors: Nicola Pensiero, Anthony Kelly and Christian Bokhove
Published by: University of Southampton, July 2020
SUMMARY
The researchers used data from the Understanding Society study, which surveyed the families of 1,430 primary and 1,595 secondary school children in April 2020 – one month into “lockdown”. They found children in primary schools spent on average 2.4 hours a day doing schoolwork and had another two hours a day of extra support from adults. In secondary schools, children were spending an average of three hours a day doing schoolwork and had 0.9 hours a day extra support from adults.
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