Episode 151: Are Students Bouncing Back from the Pandemic?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, over half a million K-12 students in Connecticut had to rapidly pivot to remote and hybrid learning. Now, after five years, schools have reestablished their regular rhythms, and it’s easy to imagine that the pandemic’s effects on learning have subsided along with social-distancing and mask mandates. But unfortunately, this isn’t the case for many students. Our guest on this episode of the UConn 360 podcast is Morgaen Donaldson, the Associate Dean for Research and Philip E. Austin Endowed Chair of the UConn Neag School of Education. She has worked to investigate and address the pandemic’s effects on student performance and well-being. Donaldson works to identify the issues currently faced by schools, develop research studies to analyze them, and ultimately design solutions.

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Episode 151: Are Students Bouncing Back from the Pandemic? is an episode from UConn 360: The UConn Podcast by UConn 360.

This episode is 14:58 long.

This episode was published on Nov 12, 2025.

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