| The pivot to online education for schoolchildren during the pandemic resulted in stress for Black families with inadequate internet service and unfamiliarity with technology, a new University of Missouri study found.”What we found was parents felt disempowered to engage in their children’s education,” said the study’s lead author, Adaobi Anakwe, an MU post-doctoral fellow. Wilson Majee, an associate professor in the MU School of Health Professions, was a co-author. Columbia Public Schools was online a large part of the 2020-21 school year and most of the last half of the 2019-20 school year. |
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