050 - School Closures in the Time of COVID-19

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Most schools closed suddenly and have had to scramble to stand up online learning or other solutions to continue instruction in the midst of the pandemic. Further complicating the response is the fact that no one knows how long this will last. Dr. Annette Anderson of the Johns Hopkins School of Education talks to Stephanie Desmon about the Digital Divide, how schools are trying to prevent a "COVID slide,"—the fear that learning can be lost over long breaks. They also discuss the burden on parents, and how some districts are stepping up to address disruptions to vital services like food and mental health support for students and their families.

Learn more: jhsph.edu/covid-19

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.u.edu
0:40.1	for future podcast episodes.
0:42.7	Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Annette Anderson
0:46.2	from the Johns Hopkins School of Education.
0:48.9	They discuss the short and long-term impacts
0:51.5	moving K-12 education online and how the pandemic is transforming how we teach our kids.
0:58.0	Let's listen.
1:00.0	I'm here today with Annette Anderson from the Johns Hopkins School of Education.
1:05.0	And we're going to talk about the impact of the coronavirus-related shutdowns of pre-K through 12 education. And that thanks for joining me.
1:13.9	Thank you for having me, Stephanie. I'd like to hear what is happening for students now that we've
1:20.3	moved to online education or perhaps no education at all? Well, I think that a lot of things are
1:26.5	happening simultaneously. First of all,
1:29.4	schools are trying to figure out how to ramp up to or maintain the same levels of education
1:36.0	as they had when schools were doing school, quote unquote, face to face. But now that the platform
1:42.3	has changed, it has meant that some schools are going to virtual
1:46.3	platforms that they've already invested in.
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