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  1. Writing about COVID-19 in a college essay GreatSchools.org

    The student or a family member had COVID-19 or suffered other illnesses due to confinement during the pandemic. The student suffered from a lack of internet access and other online learning challenges. Students who dealt with problems registering for or taking standardized tests and AP exams. Jeff Schiffman of the Tulane University admissions ...

  2. How to Write About Coronavirus in a College Essay

    Writing About COVID-19 in College Essays. Experts say students should be honest and not limit themselves to merely their experiences with the pandemic. The global impact of COVID-19, the disease ...

  3. Everything I missed as a student during the COVID pandemic

    The COVID-19 pandemic has robbed me of memories. I worked so hard in eighth-grade French class, and it took away my spring class trip to Quebec. It canceled my eighth-grade graduation trip to ...

  4. How to Write About the Impact of the Coronavirus in a College Essay

    October 21, 2020 · 7 min read. The global impact of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, means colleges and prospective students alike are in for an admissions cycle like no ...

  5. What Life Was Like for Students in the Pandemic Year

    She was all I had. I was forced to turn my camera on and float in the fake reality of being fine although I wasn't. The teachers tried to keep the class engaged by obligating the students to ...

  6. My Experience as a College Student During COVID-19

    My first two thoughts were mixtures of empathetic concern and selfish relief— "I'm glad I did my study abroad in the fall" and "It must be really tough to be a college senior this year ...

  7. 12 moving essays about life during coronavirus

    Read these 12 moving essays about life during coronavirus. Artists, novelists, critics, and essayists are writing the first draft of history. A woman wearing a face mask in Miami. Alissa Wilkinson ...

  8. 12 Ideas for Writing Through the Pandemic With The New York Times

    Publishing Opportunity: Submit your final essay to our Student Editorial Contest, open to middle school and high school students ages 10-19, until April 21. Please be sure to read all the rules ...

  9. What We Learned About Ourselves During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Alex, a writer and fellow disabled parent, found the freedom to explore a fuller version of herself in the privacy the pandemic provided. "The way I dress, the way I love, and the way I carry ...

  10. 'When Normal Life Stopped': College Essays Reflect a Turbulent Year

    This year perhaps more than ever before, the college essay has served as a canvas for high school seniors to reflect on a turbulent and, for many, sorrowful year. It has been a psychiatrist's ...

  11. Covid 19 Essay in English

    100 Words Essay on Covid 19. COVID-19 or Corona Virus is a novel coronavirus that was first identified in 2019. It is similar to other coronaviruses, such as SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, but it is more contagious and has caused more severe respiratory illness in people who have been infected. The novel coronavirus became a global pandemic in a very ...

  12. Digging deeper on the pandemic learning loss

    On the heels of new evidence of a nationwide decline in student achievement during the pandemic, a team of researchers at Stanford and Harvard released a detailed analysis that brings the findings closer to home.. The Education Recovery Scorecard, published Oct. 28 by researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) and the Center for Education Policy and Research (CEPR) at Harvard ...

  13. Student essays reflect Covid-19 struggles

    Student essays reflect Covid-19 struggles. Editor, Park Bugle. 25 Mar 2021. What's on the minds these days from students at Como Park Senior High School? Here are essays from juniors Jude Breen, Keira Schumacher and Logan Becker who wrote these essays in late February for English teacher Elizabeth Boyer's CIS Writing Studio class.

  14. 'I miss school': How students are coping with remote learning during

    In a press conference on March 23, Carranza said that the DOE is still developing the remote learning model, and all schools have had to develop their own way of dealing with the change. He asked ...

  15. Learning losses during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Understanding and

    1 INTRODUCTION. The COVID-19 pandemic brought significant disruptions to the global education system. Since the onset of the pandemic, 147 million children missed at least half of in-person schooling; of these, 25 million missed nearly all of in-person schooling due to school closures (UNICEF, 2022b).Between February 2020 and June 2022, schools across the world were fully closed for an average ...

  16. How has COVID-19 affected children's education and mental health?

    Take your pick of the data. Compared to 2019 levels, mental health-related emergency department visits rose 24 percent for kids ages 5 to 11, and 31 percent for adolescents ages 12 to 17. After a ...

  17. Answers to Your Questions About School and the Pandemic

    According to data from the American Association of Poison Control Centers, exposures to edibles for children 12 and under have jumped to more than 3,100 in 2020 from 187 in 2016. Kids can react ...

  18. Coronavirus: Who students miss from school during the class suspension

    With online lessons in place for the last two months due to Covid-19, teens share the surprising people they miss from life before the pandemic. From teachers to annoying classmates, it's the ...

  19. New research finds that pandemic learning loss impacted whole

    Moreover, remote learning was less harmful in such places. Living in a community where more people trusted the government appears to have been an asset to children during the pandemic. The average U.S. public school student in grades 3-8 lost the equivalent of a half year of learning in math and a quarter of a year in reading.

  20. Learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of emergency

    The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the sudden cancellation of in-class instruction for many students around the world presented an unprecedented disruption in children's education. As the COVID-19 pandemic took form, multiple concerns were raised about the potential negative impact on students' learning. The current study examined this proposition for children's writing ...

  21. What Students Are Saying About Living Through a Pandemic

    March 26, 2020. The rapidly-developing coronavirus crisis is dominating global headlines and altering life as we know it. Many schools worldwide have closed. In the United States alone, 55 million ...

  22. Nursing Students' Experiences and Challenges in Their Education During

    During COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face teaching and learning were converted to virtual learning and the clinical experiences were suspended to protect the students from the pandemic (Agu et al., 2021). The experiences with the online classes were very new for the nursing students.

  23. The Rise in School Absences Through the Eyes of an Educator

    School absences have risen since the return to classrooms following the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, one teacher-turned-principal shares her thoughts.

  24. PROOF POINTS: Why are kids still struggling in school four years after

    The green line translates those deficits into months of additional schooling, based on how much students typically learned in a school year before COVID hit. For example, fifth graders would need an additional 3.9 months of math instruction over and above the usual school year to catch up to where fifth graders were before the virus.

  25. My Experience as a Senior in High School During COVID-19

    COVID-19 has affected everyone's lives in some way, shape, or form. My senior year of high school was cut short due to the pandemic, and I have learned a few things from my experience.