What influence does COVID-19 have on college students' employment? The gap in academic performance and the loss of social and emotional learning are the main problems caused by the coronavirus epidemic, especially for low-income students and students of color. Now, parents, teachers and policy makers can add an item to the list of worries: "the widening gap". A new study shows that compared with those high school students who go to school in person, the comprehensive impact of high school students in distance learning on academic, social and emotional learning losses last year created the term "booming gap" to describe almost universal negative effects. Distance learning. "Many news reports reported personal stories of teenagers suffering from anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges during the epidemic," said Angela Duckworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the founder, CEO and lead author of the Personality Lab. The new study was published on Wednesday in Educational Research, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Association for Educational Research. "

The scale of adverse effects is not large, but the researchers stressed that they found that the gap between gender, race, nationality and socio-economic status is widening, which means that it has affected millions of students. Duckworth said: "As policy makers prepare for the national consultation and remedy plan, we think it is urgent. We must realize that our students are not only backward as performers, but also suffering as human beings." "It is an urgent challenge to meet their inner psychological needs-social connection, positive emotions and real intellectual participation."

With the release of the data, schools across the country plan to welcome millions of full-time students who have not attended classes in person for more than a year to return to the classroom. It reveals that some students-high school students-policy makers know little about them. It was not until the end of the 2020-2 1 school year that many senior high school students were eligible for the coronavirus pneumonia-19 vaccine. It is the most difficult for them to resume face-to-face study, because they frequently transfer from one class to another, so it is almost impossible to disinfect frequently and keep a social distance.

According to statistics, most senior high school students in the United States were in the mode of distance learning last school year. With the arrival of the new school year when the first school district is open, and the guidelines for reopening schools updated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Minister of Education, Miguel Cardona, is making every effort to push the school district to return all students to the classroom. -Personal study. In a recent interview with ABC News, he said: "I hope all schools in the country will provide students with full-time education five days a week in autumn." "Students learn best in class. I think they've had enough of the epidemic. Now it is our responsibility to ensure that we are doing what we need to do to ensure that we let them enter the classroom safely. "