COVID-19 and the Learning Gap induced by Online Education among Elementary Students Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has forced teachers and parents to quickly adapt to a new educational context: online learning. Teachers developed online academic material while some students were deprived of the access to online learning. Considering that the use of digital tools in education has dramatically increased during this crisis, and it is set to continue, there is a pressing need to understand the impact of online education. Taking a multidisciplinary view, this paper argues that by making the learning process rely more than ever on family, its financial status to afford internet and media to access rather than on teachers, and by getting students to work predominantly via digital resources, school closures exacerbate social class academic disparities. This study is based on the assumption that disrupted school years have got serious long-term effects on the learning of students. B...