The coronavirus pandemic has swept the United States and globally, upending the personal and professional lives of millions of people, including students, educators, and education researchers. At all levels of education, instructors, institution leaders, and policy makers are facing an unprecedented challenge, trying to ensure that high quality and equitable teaching and learning continues under rapidly changing and unpredictable conditions.
ÐÜèÊÓÆµhas developed a resource page to give the education research community, educators, policy makers, and others open access to updates from the scholarly community and important content. Relevant AERA-published research is also available below.
Covid-19
Elizabeth Burke Hadley, Siyu Liu, Eunsook Kim, Meaghan McKenna, Katharine Hull ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, May 2025 Researchers found that the negative impacts of COVID-19 on language and literacy emerged late and increased over time for young children but were not driven primarily by remote learning.
Megan R. Griffard, Marisa E. Marraccini, Danette Barner, Laure Sartain, Dana C. Griffin ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, May 2025 Researchers found that both types of schools were grappling with disaster educators.
Anna D. Johnson, Douglas Hummel-Price, Anne Martin, Sophie Rodosky, Diane Horm, Deborah A. Phillips ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, May 2025 Researchers found that public preschool was unrelated to state standardized test scores, grade retention, and special education status. However, for dual language learners only, public preschool attendance predicted substantial reductions in third grade (post-COVID-19) absenteeism.
Vi-Nhuan Le, Diana Schaack, Cristal Cisneros, Jolene Gregory ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, April 2025 Researchers found that pandemic-related disadvantages were observed for early math, social-emotional, and executive functioning, with the pandemic-affected cohort showing disadvantages of between 11 and 18 percentage points.
Matt S. Giani, Shruti Khandekar, Jennifer Porter ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, April 2025 Researchers found that student performance in these DE courses improved during the pandemic, suggesting that modifications the program made may have benefited student performance overall, but racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities also widened during this time.
Mark Weber, Bruce D. Baker ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, March 2025 Researchers found that spending adequacy significantly and substantially predicts time spent in virtual instruction: for every $1,000 positive change in adequacy (closing a gap and/or adding to a surplus), the time spent in virtual schooling decreases 0.9 percentage points.
Ogechi N. Irondi, Hayley Weddle, Ayesha K. Hashim ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, March 2025 Researchers found that leaders formed equity visions focused on meeting students’ individual needs, which were enacted differently at the state and local levels.
Sarah Crittenden Fuller, Tom Swiderski, Camille Mikkelsen, Kevin C. Bastian Educational Researcher, December 2024 Researchers found that each outcome worsened on average in 2020–2021, with larger changes at the high end of the absence distribution, the low end of the grade distribution, and among historically marginalized student groups.
Emily E. N. Miller, Sarah Pedersen ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, December 2024 Researchers found that increased investment in digital preparedness leading up to the pandemic was protective against decreases in test scores. However, nonmetropolitan and Appalachian areas did not experience the same benefits from their digital capacity investments compared with their metropolitan counterparts.
Brian A. Jacob ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, November 2024 Researchers found that school board elections following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to be contested and that voter turnout in contested elections increased.
Maria V. Carbonari, Miles Davison, Michael DeArmond, Daniel Dewey, Elise Dizon-Ross, Dan Goldhaber, Ayesha K. Hashim, Thomas J. Kane, Andrew McEachin, Emily Morton, Atsuko Muroga, Tyler Patterson, Douglas O. Staiger ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, September 2024 Researchers found that the interventions failed to reach the expected number of students and had little detectable impact on students’ test scores.
Eben B. Witherspoon, Max Pardo, Kirk Walters, Rachel Garrett, Matthew Hilbert, Jennifer Ford, Lisa B. Hsin, Melissa A. Rodgers, Dionisio Garcia Piriz, Lauren Burr, Leslie Thornley ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, March 2024 Researchers report on the amount and frequency of usage of an online platform for independent practice used by 58 grade 7 math teachers from seven school districts across multiple U.S. states between August 2019 and July 2021, providing insight into instruction just prior to and during COVID-19 disruptions.
Kate L. Phillippo, Elizabeth Levine Brown, Linda Galib, Ken A. Fujimoto, Aidyn L. Iachini, Naomi Brown, Crystal Lennix, Audra Parker, Tasha M. Childs ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, April 2024 Researchers found that the demand for teachers’ wellness work was inequitably distributed across teachers, varying largely by their schools’ sociodemographic characteristics.
Emma Curchin, Sara Dahill-Brown, Lesley Lavery Educational Researcher, March 2024 Researchers found that local leaders were more likely to have taken concrete steps if they were serving urban or suburban and predominantly Democratic communities. Most commonly, unions offered symbolic gestures of support or sought to develop their capacity to recognize and understand bias.
Christopher Redding, Tuan D. Nguyen Educational Researcher, February 2024 Researchers found that (1) increases in teacher dissatisfaction beginning in the 2015–16 school year persisted into the 2020–21 school year, (2) levels of dissatisfaction during the pandemic were not equal across subpopulations of teachers, and (3) positive working conditions consistently predicted lower job dissatisfaction, including in the 2020–21 school year.
Kevin C. Bastian, Sarah C. Fuller Educational Researcher, August 2023 Researchers found that educator attrition and mobility increased sharply between Fall 2020 and Fall 2022.
Beth E. Schueler, Luke C. Miller Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, July 2023 Researchers found that pre-K–12 enrollment dropped by 4% between fall 2019 and the first post-pandemic fall of 2020.
Elizabeth Burke Hadley, Siyu Liu, Eunsook Kim, Meaghan McKenna Educational Researcher, June 2023 Researchers found that COVID-19 closures did not have significant negative impacts on pre-K children’s language and literacy skills at kindergarten entry.
Denisa Gándara, Meredith S. Billings, Paul G. Rubin, Lindsey Hammond Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, May 2023 Researchers examined how policymakers in California and Texas made decisions about funding higher education at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when policymakers faced an economic downturn
Elizabeth Bell, David Schwegman, Michael Hand, Michael DiDomenico Educational Researcher, March 2023 Researchers found that disbursement policies varied along two dimensions: (1) whether they imposed burdens on students by requiring applications and proof of hardship and (2) whether they targeted needy students and varied the amount of aid according to need.
Alexandra Freidus, Erica O. Turner Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, November 2022 Researchers examined stakeholders’ overlapping and contested understandings of justice in public education, including claims related to how school resources are distributed, whom district policies recognize, and who is represented in policymaking.
Teresa M. Ober, Ying Cheng, Matthew F. Carter, Cheng Liu ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, June 2023 Researchers found that although students were resilient in some respects, their self-appraisal and learning appear to have been negatively affected by pandemic circumstances.
Lauren E. Decker-Woodrow, Craig A. Mason, Ji-Eun Lee, Jenny Yun-Chen Chan, Adam Sales, Allison Liu, Shihfen Tu ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, April 2023 Researchers found that hierarchical linear modeling analyses of the final analytic sample showed significantly higher posttest scores for students who used From Here to There and DragonBox 12+ compared to the Active Control condition.
Matthew J. Hirshberg, Richard J. Davidson, Simon B. Goldberg Educational Researcher, January 2023 Researchers found that most participants reported clinically meaningful anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Thomas S. Dee, Elizabeth Huffaker, Cheryl Phillips, Eric Sagara American Educational Research Journal, December 2022 Researchers found that offering remote-only instead of in-person instruction reduced enrollment by 1.1 percentage points.
Joseph M. Kush, Elena Badillo-Goicoechea, Rashelle J. Musci, Elizabeth A. Stuart Educational Researcher, November 2022 Researchers found that teachers reported a greater prevalence of anxiety symptoms than did those in other professions and that remote teachers reported significantly higher levels of distress than did those teaching in person.
Kenneth Shores, Matthew P. Steinberg Educational Researcher, October 2022 Researchers found that the amount of federal aid during the Great Recession and COVID-19 pandemic was inadequate to meet policy goals.
Kelly Rosinger, Robert Kelchen, Dominique J. Baker, Justin Ortagus, Mitchell D. Lingo ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, May 2022 Researchers found that how states approach higher education cuts has the potential to exacerbate existing inequities among racially minoritized and low-income students and historically underfunded institution types.
Lisa M. Dorner, Kelly Harris, Blake Willoughby ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, February 2022 Researchers examined how an urban elementary school and nonprofit organization worked to address challenges made visible by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Esther Michela, Joshua M. Rosenberg, Royce Kimmons, Omiya Sultana, Macy A. Burchfield, Tayla Thomas ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, February 2022 Researchers found that districts worked to build community and share time-sensitive announcements in alignment with social media crisis communication recommendations.
Anna D. Johnson, Owen N. Schochet, Sherri Castle, Diane Horm, Deborah A. Phillips ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January 2022 Researchers found that teachers’ prepandemic executive functioning and observed classroom instructional and organizational quality—features of successful teachers during normal times—predicted more during-pandemic time remote teaching, while teacher older age and having more high-needs students was associated with less remote teaching time.
Lin Wu, Nhu Nguyen ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January 2022 Researchers used Asian critical race theory to examine how two Southeast Asian American students faced exclusion and erasure before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and how their Southeast Asian American teacher advocated for them at a public elementary school in the Pacific Northwest.
Bradley D. Marianno, Annie A. Hemphill, Ana Paula S. Loures-Elias, Libna Garcia, Deanna Cooper, Emily Coombes ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January 2022 Researchers found that school districts where teachers’ unions exhibit strong second face power (but not first face power) were less likely to start the school year with in-person instruction, were less likely to ever open during fall semester with in-person instruction and spent fewer weeks in in-person learning.
Lora Bartlett Educational Researcher, January 2022
Morgan S. Polikoff, Daniel Silver, Marshall Garland, Anna Rosefsky Saavedra, Amie Rapaport, Michael Fienberg Educational Researcher, January 2022
Erika M. Kitzmiller, Akira Drake Rodriguez Educational Researcher, December 2021
Andrew M. Camp, Gema Zamarro Educational Researcher, November 2021
Dora Gicheva Educational Researcher, November 2021
Matt Grossmann, Sarah Reckhow, Katharine O. Strunk, Meg Turner Educational Researcher, September 2021
Thomas S. Dee, Mark Murphy Educational Researcher, August 2021
Angela Calabrese Barton, Day Greenberg, Chandler Turner, Devon Riter, Melissa Perez, Tammy Tasker, Denise Jones, Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, Elizabeth A. Davis ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, August 2021 Researchers found that youth not only aimed to reveal the dynamic and human aspects of and relationships with data as they engage with/in the world as people who matter but also offered alternative infrastructures for counter data production and aggregation toward justice in the here and now and desired possible futures.
Baoqi Sun, Chin Ee Loh, Beth Ann O’Brien, Rita Elaine Silver ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, July 2021 Researchers found that children preferred print reading over reading digitally both before and during the lockdown, and devices were underutilized for reading purposes.
Jason A. Grissom, Lara Condon Educational Researcher, June 2021
Drew H. Bailey, Greg J. Duncan, Richard J. Murnane, and Natalie Au Yeung Educational Researcher, April 2021
Kate Steed Hoffman, Mariana Barragan Torres, Christine Min Wotipka ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, April 2021 Researchers found that cross-national diversity in policies is related to both internal and external country factors such as peer emulation mechanisms, income, and past pandemic experiences.
Tim Pressley Educational Researcher, March 2021
Lucrecia Santibañez, Cassandra M. Guarino Educational Researcher, February 2021
Kate Steed Hoffman, Mariana Barragan Torres, Christine Min Wotipka ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January-December 2021
Julia Holzer, Marko Lüftenegger, Selma Korlat, Elisabeth Pelikan, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Christiane Spiel, Barbara Schober ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January-December 2021
Ioana Literat ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January-December 2021
Chris K. Chang-Bacon Educational Researcher, February 2021
Rebecca J. Collie ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, January-December 2021
Oded Gurantz, Christopher Wielga Educational Researcher, prepublished February 2021
Cassandra R. Davis, Jevay Grooms, Alberto Ortega, Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Edward Vargas Educational Researcher, January/February 2021
Megan Kuhfeld, James Soland, Beth Tarasawa, Angela Johnson, Erik Ruzek, Jing Liu Educational Researcher, November 2020
Day Greenberg, Angela Calabrese Barton, Carmen Turner, Kelly Hardy, Akeya Roper, Candace Williams, Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, Elizabeth A. Davis, Tammy Tasker Educational Researcher, October 202o
Greg Trevors, Melissa C. Duffy Educational Researcher, October 2020
David DeMatthews, David Knight, Pedro Reyes, Amber Benedict, Rebecca Callahan Educational Researcher, August/September 2020
Online/Distance/Digital Learning
Overview
Jeffrey A. Greene, Nikki G. Lobczowski, Rebekah Freed, Brian M. Cartiff, Cynthia Demetriou, A. T. Panter American Educational Research Journal, July 2019
Abbey C. Karich, Matthew K. Burns, Kathrin E. Maki Review of Educational Research, September 2014
Robert M. Bernard, Philip C. Abrami, Eugene Borokhovski, C. Anne Wade, Rana M. Tamim, Michael A. Surkes, Edward Clement Bethel Review of Educational Research, September 2009
J. D. Fletcher, Sigmund Tobias, Robert A. Wisher Educational Researcher, March 2007
Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns, Gaea Leinhardt Review of Educational Research, Winter 2006
Robert M. Bernard, Philip C. Abrami Yiping Lou, Evgueni Borokhovski, Anne Wade, Lori Wozney, Peter Andrew Wallet, Manon Fiset Binru Huang Review of Educational Research, Fall 2004
Yiping Lou, Philip C. Abrami, Sylvia d’Apollonia Review of Educational Research, Fall 2001
Impact/Efficacy/Outcomes
Carolyn J. Heinrich, Jennifer Darling-Aduana, Annalee Good, Huiping (Emily) Cheng American Educational Research Journal, March 2019
Cassandra M. D. Hart, Dan Berger, Brian Jacob, Susanna Loeb, Michael Hill ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, February 2019
Marie Hull, Katherine Duch Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, September 2018
Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Negin Dahya, Elizabeth Adelman American Educational Research Journal, December 2017
Dermot F. Donnelly, Marcia C. Linn, Sten Ludvigsen Review of Educational Research, December 2014
Di Xu, Shanna Smith Jaggars Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, September 2011
Rana M. Tamim, Robert M. Bernard, Eugene Borokhovski, Philip C. Abrami, Richard F. Schmid Review of Educational Research, March 2011
Engagement
Justin Paulsen, Alexander C. McCormick Educational Researcher, January 2020
Jennifer Darling-Aduana ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, November 2019
Math
Nicole Shechtman, Jeremy Roschelle, Mingyu Feng, Corinne Singleton ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019
Jeremy Roschelle, Mingyu Feng, Robert F. Murphy, Craig A. Mason ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, October 2016
Jeremy Roschelle, Nicole Shechtman, Deborah Tatar, Stephen Hegedus, Bill Hopkins, Susan Empson, Jennifer Knudsen, Lawrence P. Gallagher American Educational Research Journal,, 2010
Reading/Literacy
Adriana G. Bus, Susan B. Neuman, Kathleen Roskos ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2020
Trude Hoel, Elise Seip ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019
W. Quin Yow, Sridhar Priyashri ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019
Tanya Christ, X. Christine Wang, Ming Ming Chiu, Ekaterina Strekalova-Hughes ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019
Gabrielle A. Strouse, Lisa A. Newland, Daniel J. Mourlam ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019
Stephanie M. Reich, Joanna C. Yau, Ying Xu, Tallin Muskat, Jessica Uvalle, Daniela Cannata ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019
James S. Kim, Catherine A. Asher, Mary Burkhauser, Laura Mesite, Diana Leyva ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019
Amanda P. Goodwin, Sun-Joo Cho, Dan Reynolds, Katherine Brady, Jorge Salas American Educational Research Journal, 2019
Byeong-Young Cho, Lindsay Woodward, Dan Li, Wendy Barlow American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Zsofia K. Takacs, Elise K. Swart, Adriana G. Bus Review of Educational Research, 2015
Kathy Ann Mills Review of Educational Research, 2010
Games
Americo N. Amorim, Lieny Jeon, Yolanda Abel, Eduardo F. Felisberto, Leopoldo N. F. Barbosa, Natália Martins Dias Educational Researcher, 2020
Adi Elimelech, Dorit Aram ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2019
Douglas B. Clark, Emily E. Tanner-Smith, Stephen S. Killingsworth Review of Educational Research, 2016
Equity in and Access to Online Learning/Technology
June Ahn, Austin Beck, John Rice, Michelle Foster ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, 2016
Patricia Burch, Annalee Good, Carolyn Heinrich Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
Justin Reich, Richard Murnane, John Willett Educational Researcher, 2012
Mark Warschauer, Tina Matuchniak Review of Educational Research, 2010
Yong Zhao, Kenneth A. Frank American Educational Research Journal, 2003
Daniel T. Hickey, Ann C. H. Kindfield, Paul Horwitz, Mary Ann T. Christie American Educational Research Journal, 2003
Larry Cuban, Heather Kirkpatrick, Craig Peck American Educational Research Journal, 2001
Online Teaching/Professional Development
Julie Cohen, Vivian Wong, Anandita Krishnamachari, Rebekah Berlin Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, February 2020
Margaret R. Blanchard, Catherine E. LePrevost, A. Dell Tolin, Kristie S. Gutierrez Educational Researcher, April 2016
Peter Aubusson, Paul Burke, Sandy Schuck, Matthew Kearney, Bart Frischknecht Educational Researcher, June 2014
Norm Friesen Educational Researcher, April 2011
Kimberly A. Lawless, James W. Pellegrino Review of Educational Research, December 2007
Mary K. Tallent-Runnels, Julie A. Thomas, William Y. Lan, Sandi Cooper, Terence C. Ahern, Shana M. Shaw, Xiaoming Liu Review of Educational Research, Spring 2006
Raven McCrory Wallace American Educational Research Journal, Summer 2004
Barbara Means, Jeremy Roschelle, William Penuel, Nora Sabelli, Geneva Haertel Review of Research in Education, January 2003
Mark Windschitl, Kurt Sahl American Educational Research Journal, Spring 2002
Online Bullying
Joseph H. Gardella, Benjamin W. Fisher, Abbie R. Teurbe-Tolon Review of Educational Research, January 2017
Trauma-Informed Practices
M. Shelley Thomas, Shantel Crosby, Judi Vanderhaar Review of Research in Education, May 2019
Amanda L. Sullivan, Gregory R. Simonson Review of Educational Research, June 2016
Elizabeth Dutro, Andrea C. Bien American Educational Research Journal, February 2014
School Budget Cuts
Kenneth Shores, Matthew P. Steinberg ÐÜèÊÓÆµOpen, September 2019