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“Students were very angry, they were very uncomfortable and very sad,” said one elementary school teacher, who let part of his class be a place for students to talk about their emotions.
K-12 educators cheered Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's decision to make them eligible for COVID-19 vaccines beginning January 7th.
The challenge, as always: allowing discourse about current events without showing partisan bias.
A “delay, vaccinate and extend” approach would allow the district to provide more in-person instruction this school year.
It's an "unprecedented level" of funding, said Ryan Brown, a spokesperson for the state Department of Education.
Our analysis of reopening plans in 106 large, high-profile districts finds that they have taken student engagement and attendance far more seriously this fall than they did after schools first closed last spring.
The teachers’ union wants schools to shut again if the rate of positive virus tests keeps rising. The city is determined to keep them open.
The goal is to reverse this year’s anticipated learning loss due to the coronavirus pandemic and then catapult third-grade reading proficiency rates from 37% to 62% by 2025 under a new campaign known as “25 by 25.”
He found that Chicago high schools that ranked high on his three-part index for ninth graders subsequently reduced the number of arrests at school while increasing high school graduation and college enrollment rates.
Preschool and special education cluster teachers and staff were expected to report to their schools — so some set up laptops and taught outside instead.
Though high schools are required to offer the course, students will not be required to take it.
The study, drawn from more than 900 in-person visits to schools and day care providers, showed that the students who suffered most weren’t necessarily economically disadvantaged, but rather those who had poor support structures.
It’s another way to reach students without internet or computers during the pandemic.
Cleveland schools have long had a problem with attendance and chronic absenteeism. It has consistently been near the bottom of the state in both measures, and even had a citywide campaign in 2015 to improve attendance, with modest success.
Biden has pledged to undo many of the changes DeVos has made as President Donald Trump's secretary of education, including putting back in place reforms made under President Barack Obama.
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