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ArticleFrontiers in education2024

The impact of COVID-19 school disruptions on children's learning.

Courtney K Blackwell, Maxwell Mansolf, Sean C L Deoni, Jody M Ganiban, Leslie D Leve, Amy E Margolis, Monica McGrath, Sara S Nozadi, T Michael O'Shea, Phillip Sherlock and 2 more

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Article in Frontiers in education, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Self-reported positive health outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic among adolescents born preterm in the ECHO cohort.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Courtney K BlackwellDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States.
Maxwell MansolfDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, United States.
Sean C L DeoniBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, United States.
Jody M GanibanDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States.
Leslie D LeveCounseling Psychology and Human Services, University of Oregon College of Education, Eugene, OR, United States.
Amy E MargolisIrving Medical Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
Monica McGrathJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Sara S NozadiCommunity Environmental Health Program, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
T Michael O'SheaUniversity of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Phillip SherlockAnita Zucker Center for Excellence in Early Childhood Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.
Qi ZhaoDepartment of Preventative Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, United States.
Kaja Z LeWinnDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.

Funding

Project-005U2COD023375 · OD · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI Linda S Adair, Phillip Brian Smith · 2016 to 2026
$215.9M
ECHODAC (Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Data Analysis Center)U24OD023382 · OD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Diane J Catellier, LISA P JACOBSON · 2016 to 2026
$148.4M
The ECHO Measurement Core: A Framework and Resource for Assessing Environmental Exposure and Child HealthU24OD023319 · OD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI Courtney K Blackwell, RICHARD GERSHON · 2016 to 2026
$43.7M
Understanding Breastfeeding Practices Among ECHO Cohort Participants Before and During/After the COVID-19 PandemicUH3OD023285 · OD · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Charles James Barone, MICHAEL R. ELLIOTT · 2018 to 2026
$24.5M
The Role of the Placenta-Brain Axis in Children's NeurodevelopmentUH3OD023348 · OD · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Rebecca Fry, Michael O'SHEA · 2018 to 2026
$21.9M
Understanding Risk Gradients from Environment on Native American Child Health Trajectories: Toxicants, Immunomodulation, Metabolic syndromes, & Metals ExposureUH3OD023344 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIS CTR · PI Johnnye L Lewis, Debra MacKenzie · 2019 to 2026
$21.1M
Not whether but how: The ethics of reporting individual results in a pregnancy cohort.UH3OD023290 · OD · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI Julie Beth Herbstman, AMY MARGOLIS · 2018 to 2026
$18.8M
The Early Growth and Development Study Pediatric CohortUH3OD023389 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · PI Jody M. Ganiban, Leslie Diane Leve · 2018 to 2026
$16.6M
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: National health policies to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus in the US resulted in widespread school closures and disrupted learning in Spring 2020. Methods: This study draws on unique individual-level data from Results: Linear regression analyses estimated that children who experienced more than 4 weeks of instruction disruptions in Spring 2020 scored 4.5 points [95% CI: -8.77, -0.22] lower on age-normed math assessments compared to peers who had four or fewer weeks of disruption, adjusting for sociodemographic variables, pre-pandemic vocabulary, and COVID-19 family hardships and stress. No differences were found for reading. Children whose caregivers had higher levels of pandemic-related traumatic stress and lower educational attainment also had lower math scores, adjusting for all other covariates. Discussion: Results suggest educators and schools focus additional attention on supporting math instruction for children who experienced extended learning disruptions.

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academic achievementchildrenCOVID-19learningpandemicschool closure

Identifiers

PMID39380930
PMCPMC11460541

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