August 2020 A new study suggests middle and high school students are seeing less academic success as a result of online learning as schools close again due to spiking COVID-19 cases. Coronavirus: 4 In 10 U.S. This way, nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. Factoring in COVID-19, however, paints a different picture -- one where women are much less likely than men to choose to study in person, and much more likely to pick a fully online education option. Daniel Berumen Jaime Rodriguez . Closures and Learning Disruption Campus Closures . The data was collected as a part of a larger survey conducted Oct. 13-19, 2020. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers, parents, school districts, and communities are doing their best to replace in-person with online learning. With most of the world’s students now at home due to COVID-19, the pandemic is revealing startling divides in digitally-based distance learning, data from the UN education and cultural agency, UNESCO, and partners has revealed. Cathy Stute . Teens Report Not Doing Online Learning : Coronavirus Updates A new national survey also suggests most teens are following coronavirus … By fall, many campuses developed plans to merge in-person instruction (with social distancing) and online learning, with … COVID-19 Student Survey: Online Learning Experiences and Challenges Experienced Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic Spring 2020 . As is true for most surveys being released these days, the data for this one, "The Changing Landscape of Online Education, 2020" (CHLOE for short), must be read in light of the fact that the coronavirus has dramatically changed the environment for online learning like so many others. But as a recent Washington Post article notes, the move to e-learning prompted by school closures has “exposed the technology divides”—with K–12 students who lack the resources they now need to learn… This gender divide is one of the most striking findings to emerge from a new Strada Education Network study published this week. Research by: Vera Froman . The spring semester of 2020 was significantly disrupted by the spread of the coronavirus as more than 1,300 colleges and universities in all 50 states canceled in-person classes or shifted to online-only instruction. Everyone who took part is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. All told, we estimate that the average K–12 student in the United States could lose $61,000 to $82,000 in lifetime earnings (in constant 2020 dollars), or the equivalent of a year of full-time work, solely as a result of COVID-19–related learning losses. The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning. According to a March 16 update from Education Week, 69,000 U.S. schools are currently closed, forcing nearly 36 million students out of classrooms and into online learning environments.