As COVID rises in many communities, the inability to staff classrooms and buses due to exposure and illness forces schools to return to full online-learning.
Compelling students to turn on their webcams during online learning raises issues of increased data collection, implies a lack of trust, and conflates students' school and home lives, advocates say
Analysis identifies substantial "rigor gap" between grades Florida high school students earn and their mastery of math and English Language Arts content.
Even with the prospect of widespread COVID vaccination next year, the pandemic's impact on education will persist, most noticeably for underprivileged students in neighborhoods.
But a significant number of students—generally from low-income and other vulnerable groups—did not participate in testing because of connectivity problems or other issues.
As the scope of COVID learning loss becomes clearer, educators are quickly implementing strategies to prevent students from falling behind in math and reading.
Though one analysis finds COVID learning loss wasn't as severe as expected, the absence of underrepresented students from the data has transformative policy implications for the education system.
The COVID learning loss predictions were dire, and several organizations are now releasing data tracking how students have actually performed this fall.
During the disrupted school schedules of COVID, micro-credentials are having another moment as a more flexible and personalizable form of professional development.
