Less time was spent learning by July than at start of pandemic despite best efforts of schools and parents, says IFS
The amount of daily schoolwork children completed at home during last year’s lockdown declined the longer they stayed out of the classroom, according to new research compiled by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Rather than schools and parents getting more adept at home schooling as the shut-down continued, the IFS study of hundreds of children in England found that the amount of time spent on learning continued to shrink. By the end of the summer term children were spending only about 50% of the time studying at home that they would have normally spent learning in the classroom.
