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We study children’s access to remote learning when schools were closed during the COVID-19 pandemic and their parents’ perceptions about learning progress in seven Southeast Asian countries. This is the first regional analysis to systematically document students’ access to remote learning based on survey data and to investigate how school closures and remote learning access affected children’s learning progress. The results are based on survey responses from 2200 households. We find that 79% of the respondents felt that their children’s learning progress was slower during school closures than it would have been with in-person schooling. Slightly less than half of all children experienced very little or no learning progress. Three characteristics were strongly correlated with learning progress. First, boys were more likely than girls to experience very little or no progress. Second, children from households in the top 30% of the income distribution were more likely to progress at the same rate as in-person classes, compared to children from lower income households. Third, comparing the different remote learning modes, internet-based learning or multiple learning modes provided children with a better chance of maintaining learning progress than other single modes.

With this qualitative study, we contribute to the discourse on the governance of education systems in the context of crisis and fragility. We look at the crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic in the education sector of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where a high proportion of schools is owned and managed by non-state actors. Conducting a content analysis of 18 semi-structured interviews with stakeholders in the education sector, we analyzed the ideas and understandings that guided their crisis management. We identified understandings of schooling and of their own agency as main factors explaining how different actors reacted to the crisis. We also found generally limited advocacy for the right to education in the given crisis situation, in which mostly non-state actors took over the responsibility to fill gaps in the DRC’s education system left by the state. In doing so, however, they contributed to the strengthening of the central state’s authority at the same time.

The author’s insights regarding the early phase of establishing education partnerships is based on serving Qatar Foundation from 2007 to 2014 as its Education City grew in number of institutions, student enrollment, and complexity of functions. Maturing as a hub capable of stimulating new knowledge and innovation required cultivating cooperation and mutual benefit with its partners and fostering community among faculty, staff, and students. Conditions the author found essential included cultural learning and dexterity, critical examination of educational practices, building shared capacity, and agreeing to and measuring desired outcomes.

Fierce competition in China's basic education system results in students spending too much time on homework. However, few studies have explored the mental health effects of homework time. Using data from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), this paper empirically examines the impact of homework time on adolescent mental health through the fixed-effects model and instrumental variables regression. Additionally, this study explores the moderating effects of teacher support and parent involvement. The results indicate that homework time has a negative effect on adolescent mental health, but only when the amount of time spent on homework exceeds about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Overall, there is a non-linear relationship between homework time and adolescent mental health. Teacher support, particularly emotional support, can mitigate the adverse mental health effects of excessive homework time, whereas parental involvement does not show the same positive effect. The analysis of heterogeneity reveals that adolescents from rural schools or medium family economic backgrounds experience a more pronounced negative impact from excessive homework time compared to those from urban schools, poorer or richer family backgrounds. Furthermore, students with outstanding academic performance are affected more significantly than their peers with poor academic performance. The empirical results echo the targets of the Chinese "double reduction policy" which requires strict control of homework time. Education policymakers should reasonably regulate homework time and systematically explore education concepts and teaching methods that are compatible with the reduction of homework time.

Existing literacy studies in low-income countries heavily emphasize school factors. This article shifts focus, examining how home-based reading resources and interactions predict children’s reading via a non-experimental study. Data involve 2,886 children aged 5–13 in Ghana, selected through a two-stage random sampling. Regression analyses show that siblings and parents reading to the child, reading in front of the child, and assisting with studying positively predict children’s acquisition of varying reading skills, measured by the Early Grade Reading Assessment. The availability of home reading resources similarly predicts these outcomes. The results advocate for more literacy investments in homes, extending beyond schools.

Schools are sites of professional becoming, yet the links between individual professionalisation and school culture are overlooked in the literature. This article explores how one teacher achieved professional competence while working in three different schools in Denmark through personal narrations of institutionally instigated processes of professional becoming. Drawing on different theoretical perspectives spanning narrative approaches, situated learning, ethnography and Bourdieu’s field theory, the findings suggest that the development of teacher professionalism is doubly situated in school cultures: first, through each school’s emergence as a distinct sociocultural organisation of participation, meaning-making and competence; and second, through teachers’ personal narrations and meaning-making in relation to specific school cultures.

Since the early 2000 s, average standardized test scores of Brazilian public primary and middle school students in both reading and mathematics on the national test, the SAEB, have risen substantially. Although the increases cut across all race and socioeconomic groups, the increases were unequal across groups and varied greatly across states and municipalities/school districts. In this paper, we describe student achievement gains in Brazil among municipalities in 2007–2017, with the goal of understanding the variation in these gains and the socioeconomic, race, and school resource correlates of that variation. Our results suggest that student social class and race were highly correlated with municipal test score gains: those municipalities with higher social class and proportionately more White students made significantly larger gains. However, municipalities with greater social class inequality made smaller gains. Certain average characteristics of teachers in a municipality and the incidence of school violence were also significantly related to student performance gains. Thus, our estimates suggest that it may be possible to soften the effects of social structural inequality among and within districts by increasing the quality of teacher resources and reducing school violence in lower academically gaining districts.

This paper presents the results of qualitative research on new practices (habitus) of researchers in higher education (HE) in Mexico during the pandemic in three institutions in the State of Sonora. The research focused on modified or new practices or habitus during the pandemic, the challenges those scholars faced, and their view on remote scientific production in this period. Bourdieu's concepts of Habitus, Discipline, and Socialization are instrumental in interpreting data. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews. The data were analyzed using coding and MAXQDA software. The main results refer to the individual, academia, and the constraint to produce knowledge. The results show that for individuals, habitus refers to the care of people. In the face of a health emergency, the focus is on it combined with academic, administrative, and research activities. Such weight is distributed unequally among the female gender; it is about caring for the family, attending research, and more work. In the case of academia, the specific tasks of some disciplines, such as economics, do not present restrictions on productivity, while others do. The regulations of Mexico’s National System of Researchers, SNI constitute a rule that constrains researchers. We assume that it is the primary mechanism for evaluating his/her productive habitus.