This book examines how educational equity is affected during crises specifically the COVID-19 pandemic. Three key concerns emerge for childrens and young peoples education: material needs, emotional wellbeing, and access to learning. The evidence highlights how pre-existing educational inequalities were exacerbated as well as altered during the global pandemic. Critical reviews of educational vulnerability and of significant crises over the past century provide the books foundation. Then, drawing on empirical research from Australia and extensive analysis of international documentation, the book demonstrates significant detriments that pandemic responses caused to formal learning and the broader support role of schools and also addresses promising educational innovations. The book is important not only for scholars in education, but also for practitioners and governments to inform how to better support learning as well as material and emotional wellbeing during and after crises, especially for children and young people experiencing disadvantage.

Emily S. Rudling is a Research Fellow at the Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Sherridan Emeryis a Research Fellow at the Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Becky Shelleyis a Deputy Director at the Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Kitty te Riele leads the research portfolio at the Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Jessica Woodroffe is Coordinator of Partner Programs and a Senior Lecturer at the Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment, University of Tasmania, Australia.

Natalie Brown is Director of the Peter Underwood Centre and Chair of Academic Senate at the University of Tasmania, Australia. 

1. Facing a Crisis: Foregrounding the Future.- 2. Lessons from Past and Present Crises and from COVID-19 Literature.- 3. Educational Vulnerability During COVID-19.- 4. The Broader Role of Schools.- 5. Impacts on School-Based Learning.- 6. New Ways of Learning.- 7.Strategies to Advance Equitable Learning Outcomes into the Future.