CovEd: How COVID-19 Shaped Student Academic Achievement

“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.”

Sonia Sotomayor (2017)

Illustration by Bianca Bagnarelli / The Economist, for The Economist.

(A child kneels on the floor between two couches, raising a hand toward a laptop showing a teacher on screen, with books and an abacus on the table.)

Research Questions:

• How did COVID-19 impact certain groups’ (genders, races, socioeconomic status, regions, grade level) academic test scores?
• Did the pandemic affect certain demographics more than others?