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Abstract：
This paper draws on current international analysis of pandemic issues in education, and on recent arguments by critical economists and political scientists, to examine two scenarios for educational policy beyond the coronavirus pandemic. One looming possibility is an onrush of austerity, deep cuts to public education, financial hardship for the working and middle classes, and a range of private sector, including online answers to public problems in education, leading to more inequity, and an even wider digital divide. The pandemic, it is argued, is already being used as a strategy to bring about educational privatization by stealth by mismanaging return-to-school strategies and by overselling the effectiveness of online and private school alternatives. The alternative is public education investment to pursue prosperity and better quality of life for everyone. This will reduce inequality instead of increasing it, close the digital divide that COVID-19 has exposed, and encourage balanced technology use to enhance good teaching rather than hybrid or blended technology delivery that may increasingly replace such teaching.
摘要：
本文借鉴了当前国际上对教育大流行问题的分析，以及批判性经济学家和政治学家最近的论点，研究冠状病毒大流行以外的教育政策的两种情况。一种迫在眉睫的可能性是紧缩，大幅削减公共教育，工人阶级和中产阶级的经济困难，和一系列私营部门，包括对教育中公共问题的在线回答，导致更多的不平等，和更大的数字鸿沟。大流行，有人争辩说，已经被用作一种战略，通过管理不当的返校策略以及过度推销在线和私立学校替代方案的有效性来隐形实现教育私有化。另一种选择是公共教育投资，以追求每个人的繁荣和更好的生活质量。这将减少而不是增加不平等，缩小COVID-19暴露的数字鸿沟，并鼓励平衡的技术使用，以加强良好的教学，而不是混合或混合技术的交付，这可能会越来越多地取代这种教学。
