What are the effects of lost learning during Covid? How is it impacting students and teachers? What can policymakers do to make up for lost learning?
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By the time the pandemic is over, most children across the UK will have missed over half a year of normal, in-person schooling. That’s likely to be more than 5% of their entire time in school.
What are the effects of this lost learning? How is it impacting students and teachers? What can policymakers do to make up for lost learning?
Here to discuss are Luke Sibieta, IFS Research Fellow, and Becky Francis, CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation, an independent charity which seeks to improve the educational attainment of the poorest pupils in English schools.
Host
Director
Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.
Participants
Research Fellow
Luke is a Research Fellow at the IFS and his general research interests include education policy, political economy and poverty and inequality.
CEO Education Endowment Foundation
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