Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by COVID-19: From SOTE Briefs to Education Policy Research Agendas

Session Type: Conversation Roundtable

Abstract

Evidence shows the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified significant inequality in American society and has had a disproportionate impact on children and youth living in communities that were already facing systemic inequalities. Last year, the SRCD convened a set of writing teams to produce a volume of five, 2-page Statement of the Evidence briefs (SOTEs) to summarize the unique impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ children and youth. During this session, authors of each SOTE will summarize their work and join small breakout sessions with audience members to answer questions and discuss the implications of the SOTEs for future education policy research. The session will end with groups sharing their ideas for priority areas for future research agendas.

This event is the SRCD-AERA Early Fellowship Session

Sub Unit

• Special Events

Session Organizers

• Nighisti Dawit, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)

• Kelly Fisher, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)

Moderator

• Tiffany Yip, Fordham University

Panelists

• Erin Bogan, American Institutes for Research

• Guadalupe Díaz Lara, Sobrato Early Academic Language Model

• Paul Poteat, Boston College

• Kaveri Subrahmanyam, California State University - Los Angeles

• Charissa S. L. Cheah, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

• Michelle Sarche, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

• Jessica V Barnes-Najor, Michigan State University