Will States Step Up to Address Gaps in Access to Remote Learning This Fall?
It should surprise no one that this spring’s experiment with remote learning revealed huge gaps in access to education that divided low-income students from their more affluent peers, rural students from urban ones, and students with disabilities from non-disabled students. While the gaps in resources between schools and districts are significant, they pale in comparison […]
What Will It Take to Reopen Schools Amid the Pandemic? 5 Experts Weigh In on What New Roles Teachers Should Play
This is the fifth in a series of invited responses to some of the big, unanswered questions facing America’s schools.
Now, More Than Ever, Public Education Funding Must Adapt to Meet Students’ Diverse Needs
As schools reopen this fall they will face their greatest-ever strains about money. Depleted state budgets could force cuts of more than 10 percent; these could escalate as the year goes on and state revenues fall short. District losses could be greater if enrollment falls, which will happen if some parents keep children at home […]
What Will It Take to Reopen Schools Amid the Pandemic? 5 Experts Weigh In on School Choice Options for Families
This is the fourth in a series of invited responses to some of the big, unanswered questions facing America’s schools as they prepare to reopen in the fall. The Center on Reinventing Public Education, in partnership with The 74, fielded responses from a diverse roster of educators and policymakers in order to promote creative thinking and debate […]
What Will It Take to Reopen Schools Amid the Pandemic? 8 Experts Weigh In on Families, Schools & Students’ Diverse Needs
This is the fourth in a series of invited responses to some of the big, unanswered questions facing America’s schools.
First District Reopening Plans Illuminate Tradeoffs and Confusion In Politically Charged Environment
Last week, school reopening was thrust into the national and political spotlight as President Donald Trump polarized the issue and Betsy DeVos, his education secretary, threatened to divert federal funding from schools that do not open in-person. Districts and states have been slow to release much detail on what to expect in the fall, but […]
What Will It Take to Reopen Schools Amid the Pandemic? 8 Experts Weigh In on What Parts of Remote Learning — and In-Person Teaching — We Should Keep
This is the second in a series of invited responses to some of the big, unanswered questions facing America’s schools.
Making Reopening Schools a Wedge Issue Is Shameful
School opening, like mask wearing, has become a wedge issue in national politics. First, Senator Rand Paul attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci for excess caution on the topic. Now President Trump is demanding that all schools return to full in-person mode in the fall, and has threatened to cut funding for schools that don’t. The President has […]
What Will It Take to Reopen Schools Amid the Pandemic? 6 Experts Weigh In on the Looming Fiscal Crisis and What Services Districts Should (and Shouldn’t) Cut
This is the first in a series of invited responses to some of the big, unanswered questions facing America’s schools.
Students Count: Highlights from COVID-19 Student Surveys
A lot has been asked of American students this spring. They have been away from their friends and at the mercy of schools unprepared to educate them from a distance. We wanted to know more than anecdotes about the student experience and what they say they need and want going into the fall. We reviewed […]
