Learning pods created by cities during COVID provided a valuable continuum of support that should continue after the pandemic, say the authors of a new research report.
We are already seeing union campaigns to boost hiring, even though the much-predicted teacher exodus never materialized. In fact, we lost fewer school employees through resignations and retirement in 2020 than in 2019.
The equitable spending of American Rescue Plan funds could rely on superintendents and their teams working closely with community leaders, education advocates say.
One ed-tech expert calls 'learning loss' narrow deficit language that misdiagnoses the broader set of challenges educators, students and families are striving to overcome.
Dozens of colleges and universities have required that students get vaccinated before returning in the fall but the issue poses more complex questions for K-12.
"The Reparations Won curriculum tells the stories of the survivors, what they went through and how they came out of it. Students become more engaged when they hear actual real life stories of people that are in their communities and have gone through things like this."
Nevada's associate superintendent for school improvement, Kody Asmus said if a student or a family wants online learning, "they're going to get it, they're going to find it, whether it's homeschooling or open-enrolling to another school or district that is offering it, and we would just love to keep our kids with us."
Better enforcing Title IX anti-discrimination rules in public schools will be the topic of a June virtual hearing held by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
