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With School Reopening a National Priority, Biden Picks a Former Teacher as Education Secretary Time 12/23/2020 Katie Reilly © Devin Leith-Yessian—Berlin Citizen/Record-Journal/AP Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona speaks with Berlin High School students while on a tour of the school on Jan. 28, 2020. President-Elect Joe Biden nominated former teacher Miguel Cardona, Connecticut’s Education Commissioner, as his Education Secretary on Tuesday, choosing a...

K.C. BELITZ Nebraska Community Foundation This will, I believe, be the 20th year The Telegram has given me the opportunity to share New Year’s wishes and resolutions as we turn the calendar. Never in those two decades has the prior year gone so differently than what we together envisioned 12 months ago. The irony is obvious that 2020 was the year that so confounded our vision. So, first, a look back at how the hopes shared last year played out. The first 2020 new year’s wi...

Battle. shannon has the specifics. >> if you had to ask americans one single thing that was likely to make the most opportunity in helping you move from the back of the line to the front, it would be a good education. >> yet, tennessee republican lamar alexander said many public schools are failing to provide that opportunity to close the achievement and long-term earning gap, so hes teaming up with tim scott of south carolina to launch a series of proposals that would give parents more choices ...

On the planet is alcohol and tobacco. the question is, do we need another one? prevalence matters. when you legalize something, prevalence increases. >> as a country, we should try to do better. this is not going to make our country stronger. its going to sap our energy as a society. we have a learning gap among kids. this is only going to widen that gap. we cant be a first rate nation and go to pot. thats just it. >> the book is available now. christopher, youll be signing books in boston, phil...

Young, because she lived in a high-risk neighborhood in new jersey, educators here at pj hill elementary provide a literousy coach to make sure she doesnt fall behind. >> its like were at a race, to assume were all at the starting line together, its not american even. >> reporter: acting superintendent oversees the school district. it has a higher number of at-risk kids and is supposed to get more funding. last year, the state gave him no budget money. incredibly, he wishes the same were true no...

>> reporter: this kind gardner is learning to read. >> she got down on the ground. >> reporter: though shes still very young, because she lives in a high-risk neighborhood in new jersey educators here provide a literacy coach to make sure she doesnt fall behind. >> its like being in a race. to assume we all start at the starting line together, its not american even. >> reporter: acting superintendent raymond oversees the trend in school districts. it has a higher number of at-risk kids and is su...

Didnt surprise me, but the statistics shocked me, frankly. let me read them. by sixth grade, low-income students fell three grades behind. by ninth grade, two-thirds of learning gap between income groups. what does this tell us about what we need to do in terms of our educational system? >> it tells us two things. one is that what is going on during the school year may not be quite as bad as were always hearing. it also tells us where we can focus a lot of effort at reasonably low costs. because...

City in early june. i agree. >> there you go. >> i think the idea of a summer vacation where kids play ball with each other and they go to parks and do things like that, fine they can do some summer reading but i think its a healthy thing, frankly. >> the problem you pointed out low income areas there isnt reading during the summer and where the summer slide is. >> we know that high income families, they do fantastic things during the summer. you get sent here. i took my kids to south africa to ...