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ERIC Number: ED622140
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 33
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
The Pre-Pandemic Growth in Online Public Education and the Factors That Predict It. CEDR Working Paper No. 03212022-1
Gratz, Trevor; Goldhaber, Dan; Brown, Nate
Center for Education Data & Research
While spring of 2020 introduced virtual instruction to all public schools, virtual schooling had already been growing in most states. We focus on pre-COVID-19 changes to fulltime virtual school enrollment in public schools, and provide evidence on the relationship between virtual school enrollment, internet speed, community demographics, and traditional K-12 school achievement levels. We find negative associations between online enrollment and test achievement in brick-and-mortar schools, and low internet speeds. There is some evidence that students are less likely to enroll in virtual schools as the share of students of their own demographic in brick-and-mortar schools increases.
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at American Institutes for Research
Authoring Institution: University of Washington, Bothell. Center for Education Data & Research (CEDR)
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