What is Chronic Absenteeism

The purpose of this chapter is to explore how COVID-19 has widened the achievement gap between students of different socioeconomic statuses. The chapter will demonstrate that students from lower socioeconomic classes received lower-quality education than students from higher socioeconomic situations who in some instances received an even better education than they had pre-pandemic face-to-face learning. These widening achievement gaps along with chronic absenteeism and lower student motivation are some of the biggest problems that the pandemic has brought to online education. This chapter goes on to explore how to remedy some of these problems. By fixing these issues, online learning and even education as a whole can emerge stronger than it was before the disruption of COVID-19.