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The USA Pandemic (COVID-19) and Home-Based Electronic Instruction
Department of Social Science, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, New York, USA
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Abstract
With the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in the USA many schools closed and w ere replaced with in-home computer instruction. This action, required Computers, Internet, and WIFI to access the daily lessons. This effort will suggest that many of the poor/working class parents of many of these students will be unable to afford the luxuries of Computers, Internet, and WIFI. Hence, these students/children will be unable to access the class sessions and assignments, negatively affecting their intellectual and social growth.
KeywordsHuman CapitalLoss of Educational Achievements1929 USA “Economic Great Depression”In Class InstructionIn Home Electronic InstructionLoss of Intellectual Outcomes
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