RAPID: Working and Teaching from Home in New York State amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

受COVID-19疫情影响，纽约州的学校自3月中旬起关闭，许多工人也在家工作。这给那些在家里做正常工作或作为重要工作人员工作的同时努力监督孩子教育的父母带来了独特的压力。 这些家长中的大多数以前没有这种形式的在家上学的经验，许多人正在与他们的孩子一起完成在线教育内容。 此外，许多父母在家工作的经验有限。 该项目将采访家长，了解他们在COVID-19大流行背景下的工作和这种在家上学形式的经历。 关键的研究问题包括：谁在监督孩子的家庭工作？ 监督孩子的学业是否有性别模式，他们如何表现自己？ 在在线教育计划的背景下，父母和孩子在家里是否有足够的技术来工作和做功课？家长如何平衡工作和学校的安排？父母如何围绕孩子的学业和工作安排他们的一天？ 在这种新的安排下，父母面临哪些压力？ 家长是否得到学校和教师的充分支持，以实施其子女的在家学习？该项目的调查结果将告知教育和商业领导者有关远程工作和这种形式的在家上学所面临的挑战，从而能够更好地应对当前的流行病，并为未来可能需要在家中进行这种组合活动的事件做好准备。 COVID-19疫情改变了美国许多家庭的工作和教育安排。 该项目将对纽约锡拉丘兹及其周边地区的父母进行定性电话采访，这些父母在家里教他们的K-12孩子，同时也在工作。 50名或更多的父母将通过雪球抽样和使用在整个锡拉丘兹地区广泛使用的育儿Facebook页面来确定。使用Facebook网站将有助于获得比滚雪球抽样更多样化的样本。 访谈将采用开放式问题，包括必要的后续问题。 访谈将被记录和转录。该项目将使用在线定性软件Dedoose和灵活的编码技术对访谈进行编码，然后进行分析编码。该项目还将确定数据中的核心故事。该项目的结果将为有关工作和家庭安排的社会学理论提供信息，特别是在远程工作和在家上学的家庭组合的背景下。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools in New York State have been closed since mid-March and many workers are also working from home. This creates unique stressors for parents who are struggling to oversee their children’s education while doing their normal jobs from home or working as an essential worker. Most of these parents have no previous experience with this form of homeschooling and many are working with their children to complete online schooling content. Also, many parents have limited experience working from home. This project will interview parents about their experiences with work and this form of homeschooling in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Key research questions include: Who is overseeing children’s at-home work? Are there gendered patterns to overseeing children’s schoolwork and how do they present themselves? Do parents and children have adequate technology at home to both work and do schoolwork at home in the context of online educational plans? How do parents balance their work and school arrangements? How do parents organize their day around children’s schoolwork and work? What stressors do parents face in this new arrangement? Do parents have adequate support from schools and teachers to provide for implementing their children’s at-home learning? Findings from the project will inform both educational and business leaders regarding the challenges that are involved in teleworking and this form of homeschooling simultaneously, thus enabling better response to the current pandemic as well as better preparedness for future events that may require this combination activities at home. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed both working and educational arrangements for many families in the United States. This project will conduct qualitative phone interviews of parents in and around Syracuse, New York, who are teaching their K-12 children at home while also working. Fifty or more parents will be identified through snowball sampling and the use of a parenting Facebook page that has wide use throughout the Syracuse area. Using the Facebook site will help to obtain a more diverse sample than snowball sampling alone could produce. Interviews will be conducted using open-ended questions including follow-up questions as necessary. Interviews will be recorded and transcribed. The project will use the online qualitative software Dedoose and flexible coding techniques to code the interviews, followed by analytic coding. The project will also identify the central stories in the data. Findings from the project will inform sociological theories regarding work and family arrangements, especially within the context of household combinations of teleworking and homeschooling.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.