COVID-19 and home-schooling: the crisis has exacerbated and highlighted existing educational inequalities

British education has faced an unprecedented situation since late March, and schools have been on the frontline. The sudden transition of the entire school system to a remote learning model is remarkable. Carl Cullinane writes that while it is inevitable in such a context that some will fare better than others, it is vital to understand how existing inequalities interact with the impacts of the pandemic.