The Education Crisis and the Allied Role of School-Based Mental Health Care.

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on educational services, leading the World Bank, UNESCO, and UNICEF to jointly declare the "worst educational crisis on record."1 In the United States, standardized testing revealed large declines in reading and mathematics.1 Disadvantaged students have been disproportionately affected as the achievement gap widened for students from historically marginalized and low-income backgrounds.1 Experts predict a culminative exacerbation of these learning losses in the years ahead.1.