Education analysts, philanthropists and advocates – many of whom spent the past year and a half working from their living rooms far removed from the classroom challenges of COVID – have laid out ambitious goals for schools that leave little room for rest or recovery.

Sakinah Irizarry, who has fifth- and seventh-grade students in the district, said that the assignment was harmful to every student, regardless of race, because it asked them to treat a traumatic experience as a thought experiment based on lies.

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.

Growing up, high school senior Ayonnah Tinsley never saw engineers who looked like her. She wrote a children's book to expand perspectives.