While the Next Generation Science Standards ask teachers to take a new approach to instruction, they also empower teachers and students to be scientists together.
Parents at a California school are questioning why a kindergarten teacher who opted not to return to the physical classroom is taking her virtual lessons on a Mexican vacation.
Without national standards, there is huge variation between what one school and a district in another state may be teaching students at the same level.
The achievement impact of COVID is shrinking in many grades, though students remain farther behind in math, according to Star assessments of 3.8 million students.
Districts reported lower kindergarten enrollment in 2020-21, which means returning students could alter the traditional makeup of the early grades this fall.
Post-COVD buzzwords such as new normal, reimagined schools and transformation amount only to "tinkering at the edges," to a think tank focused on K-12 equity.
