Coronavirus school closures 'will leave children from poorest families a week and a half behind classmates'

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Coronavirus school closures 'will leave children from poorest families a week and a half behind classmates'
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‘These differences will likely widen pre-existing gaps in test scores between children from different backgrounds’, researcher warns

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