{"id":71778,"date":"2021-04-20T09:04:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=71778"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:56","slug":"tossutti-volante-klinger-and-siegel-student-achievement-depends-on-reducing-poverty-now-and-after-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/04\/tossutti-volante-klinger-and-siegel-student-achievement-depends-on-reducing-poverty-now-and-after-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"VOLANTE, KLINGER, TOSSUTTI and SIEGEL: Student achievement depends on reducing poverty now and after COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Volante, Professor of Education at Brock University, and\u00a0Livianna Tossutti, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University, co-wrote a piece in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/student-achievement-depends-on-reducing-poverty-now-and-after-covid-19-153523?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20April%2020%202021&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20April%2020%202021+CID_b7472e6cfcaa2184bc41570bd04ba44b&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Student%20achievement%20depends%20on%20reducing%20poverty%20now%20and%20after%20COVID-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about the importance of policies to support low socio-economic students. The piece was written along with Don Klinger, Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Te W\u0101nanga Toi Tangata Division of Education at the University of Waikato, and Melissa Siegel, Professor of Migration Studies and Head of Migration Studies at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is no doubt that COVID-19 has significantly impacted our lives, including schools and education. Temporary closures of\u00a0school buildings have highlighted how\u00a0factors outside school systems affect schools\u2019 capacity to meet students\u2019 needs and support academic achievement. For example, elementary schools can only successfully deliver online education if children have an\u00a0adult or responsible caregiver with them\u00a0or they have a reliable internet connection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There is\u00a0a large body of research\u00a0that underscores the importance of particular\u00a0policies that can support low socio-economic students\u00a0as well as policies that align with the most effective education systems globally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These areas include investing in quality early childhood education, providing adequate mental health and technology support to benefit children in primary and secondary school and funding for post-secondary students. Policy in all these areas can be considered social protection policies. According to UNICEF, such policy reduces \u201cthe lifelong consequences of poverty and exclusion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/student-achievement-depends-on-reducing-poverty-now-and-after-covid-19-153523?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20April%2020%202021&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20April%2020%202021+CID_b7472e6cfcaa2184bc41570bd04ba44b&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Student%20achievement%20depends%20on%20reducing%20poverty%20now%20and%20after%20COVID-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Volante, Professor of Education at Brock University, and\u00a0Livianna Tossutti, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University, co-wrote a piece in The Conversation about the importance of policies to support low socio-economic students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,7,6,38],"tags":[98,522,3426,3028,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71807,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71778\/revisions\/71807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}