Parents believe that their children are exhibiting worse behavior during remote learning at home than when they attend school in person, a new study has revealed. Researchers from Harvard University led the study, which involved four online surveys among 405 parents of children in Massachusetts from Jan. 4 to May 23, 2021—a period marked by back-and-forth school closures. Overall, 348 parents reported on 356 children’s behaviors in at least one of the surveys. Some 57 percent of the children had switched learning formats at least once during the period of the survey, according to the results published on Jan. 10 in JAMA Pediatrics. The children’s behavioral outcomes also appeared to be worse with remote than in-person learning or a hybrid of the two. The findings suggested that when learning remotely, parents reported that their child exhibited worse general behavior, more maladaptive behavioral changes, and more dysregulated behavior than when learning …