Forbidding Remote Learning: Why Some Schools Won’t Offer a Virtual Option This Fall
Robin Lake is quoted in Education Week on the dangers of abandoning remote learning immediately after the pandemic.
Promising Practices Drive Progress: Closing Learning Gaps for Students with Disabilities
This brief highlights six promising practices for serving students with disabilities after the pandemic.
We had a year to experiment with online learning. What did we learn?
Bree Dusseault is quoted in the Seattle Times on lessons learned from a year of remote schooling.
Many kindergartners aren’t showing up as schools reopen in person. How some large urban districts are trying to re-engage families
While most schools are back in person this spring, they continue to grapple with lagging enrollment. Pre-K and kindergarten have been hit especially hard.
As school districts move from “reopening” to “recovery,” what will they be recovering from?
Last winter we interviewed 29 school leaders about lost learning time over the last year and a half, and they were nearly unanimous on one point: rather than diverting struggling students to remedial tracks, they hoped to push forward with teaching grade-level content and skills across the board. The approach, sometimes referred to as “acceleration,” […]
Returning this Fall, By Popular Demand: Virtual School. For Communities of Color, it’s Largely a Matter of Trust
Bree Dusseault is quoted in The 74 on why some families are not choosing the option to return to in-person learning.
What American kids need this summer
Vox cites data from CRPE on districts’ plans for summer schooling.
Building public education back better: Could learning hubs and micro-schools be the foundation?
The consensus is becoming clear: families and district leaders want a return to in-person learning as soon as possible. But in a growing number of communities, that does not mean a return to normal. “Normal” wasn’t working for historically marginalized students who have suffered from unequal access to high-quality, rigorous instruction. It wasn’t working for […]
Technology to the rescue: How technology helped connect teachers and parents of students with disabilities through remote learning
This is the second blog post in our Notes from the Field: Special Education blog series. In the early days of the pandemic, schools scrambled to address new and daunting priorities like distributing meals to students and setting families and teachers up for remote learning. Unfortunately, in the frenzy, many schools failed to communicate sufficiently with […]
Statewide assessment plans are unclear and neglect remote learners
Weeks away from the end of the school year, it’s still unclear whether assessment data will play a role in shaping academic and social-emotional intervention strategies for 2021–22. The Biden administration has told districts to resume statewide assessments so they can better target student supports for next school year—with a popular waiver system available for […]
