Purpose: This essay offers a perspective for practitioners and decision-makers to look beyond short-term recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and consider longer-term consequences that it may have on schools. Design/methodology/approach: In this essay, I discuss some general observations about education during the pandemic and then provide a perspective to some issues related to educational inequalities and learning from home during the pandemic. The essay is informed by recent media articles and reports of national and international institutions. Findings: This essay makes three claims: Despite high hopes, there is only a little chance schools will change as a consequence of this pandemic without bold and brave shifts in mindset in how that change happens. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the effects of preexisting social and educational inequalities; fixing these would be an important consequence of the pandemic. During school closures, learning from home has been mostly based on the old logic of consuming information and knowledge rather than creating or cocreating new ideas and solutions to real-life problems. Research limitations/implications: This is an essay that offers evidence-informed perspectives to current development in education, and it should not be treated as a research-based article. Originality/value: This essay will contribute to the evolving public conversation and professional debate on the future of school education. It will be part of the series of essays that will support those who are seeking to not just adapt to meet the pandemic but also to step back and consider the medium to longer-term implications.

中文翻译：

---

大流行会改变学校吗？

目的：本文为从业者和决策者提供了一个视角，使他们不仅可以从COVID-19大流行中短期恢复，还可以考虑可能对学校造成的长期影响。设计/方法/方法：在本文中，我讨论了有关大流行期间教育的一些一般性看法，然后提供了与大流行期间教育不平等和在家中学习有关的一些问题的观点。这篇文章是根据最近的媒体文章以及国家和国际机构的报道而提供的。调查结果：本文提出三点主张：尽管寄予厚望，但由于这种流行病，学校改变的可能性很小，而这种改变的发生方式没有大胆而勇敢的转变。COVID-19大流行加剧了先前存在的社会和教育不平等的影响；解决这些问题将是大流行的重要后果。在学校停课期间，在家学习主要是基于消耗信息和知识的旧逻辑，而不是针对现实生活中的问题创造或共同创造新的想法和解决方案。研究的局限性/含义：这是一篇为当前教育发展提供循证见解的论文，不应将其视为基于研究的文章。原创性/价值：本文将有助于就学校教育的未来不断发展的公众对话和专业辩论。