“It’s just great to see such a carefully done study,” says Anita Cicero, an expert in pandemic response policy at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
While it is absolutely the case that this moment is unlike any we've experienced before, it is also true that the current literacy crisis we're facing was entirely predictable.
Districts should "make no assumptions" about students' housing status and access to resources, which are subject to change especially as the pandemic persists.
Children's mental health care, which faces a shortage of providers, often focuses on treatment rather than prevention or promotion of mental wellness, experts say.
