Schools around the world have implemented phone bans. The guiding principle everywhere has been to help students do better in school. But studies have shown these bans often don’t work as planned.
As education scholars focused on literacy practices in schools, here are five ways the COVID-19 pandemic—and the rapid shift to remote learning and back—transformed education.
There is one key exception. When a president endorses a policy that is traditionally more popular with members of the other party, partisan polarization on that issue tends to lessen slightly. Also, public opinion as a whole tends to shift in the direction of the president’s position.
Summer learning can play a crucial role in helping students recover learning lost during the pandemic. The federal government has also acknowledged the importance of summer learning through its Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, or ESSER.
The quality of school meals has steadily improved, especially since the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act strengthened nutrition standards for school meals. In fact, by 2017, one study found that school meals provided the best diet quality of any major U.S. food source.
It's an issue the Supreme Court has decided to take up after public officials, including two school board members, blocked constituents from seeing their accounts or removed critical comments.
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