Podcasts Government Grattan Institute COVID catch-up: helping disadvantaged students close the equity gap

COVID catch-up: helping disadvantaged students close the equity gap

Published: June 14, 2020, 11:26 p.m.

Australia should launch a $1 billion, six-month tutoring blitz to help 1 million disadvantaged school students recover learning lost during the COVID-19 lockdowns.\n\nGovernments should send a battalion of 100,000 tutors into schools between now and Christmas to conduct intensive small-group sessions on reading and maths.\n\nMany disadvantaged students \u2013 those from the poorest 25 per cent of families and rural areas \u2013 will have fallen further behind their classmates during the COVID-19 school closures.\n\nListen to Julie Sonnemann, School Education Fellow, in discussion with Kat Clay, Head of Digital Communications, about how to help disadvantaged students recover lost learning. \n\nFor more information or to read the report in discussion, visit: https://grattan.edu.au/report/covid-catch-up/