Prolonged school closures could be very costly for America's students

Prolonged school closures associated with the coronavirus pandemic are likely to have a major and negative affect on children’s learning, according to a wide range of experts — leaving some students behind academically for years to come, and even leading to meaningful lost income over the course of their lifetimes. LBJ's Paul von Hippel "notes that we do have evidence from other kinds of school year disruptions that all point to problems. ... Having kids out of school is bad, and especially bad for poor children."