COLUMBIA - The Columbia Public School Board voted to send middle and high school students into a hybrid learning model last Monday night.
The board previously ruled out hybrid as an option but said advances in technology created a situation where a hybrid model is possible.
Since the pandemic sent many students around the country home last March, researchers have tracked the decisions school districts have made and how learning in-seat or virtually has affected students.
Hybrid has become notably less popular.
In December, 12% of districts around the country were in hybrid, while 44% were in-person and 31% were remote.
CPS is also in the minority of districts nationally that went from remote learning to in-person. Only 3% of districts who made a change between November and December went to a model with more in-person options. About 15%, on the other hand, moved into a more remote learning model.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned last week in the wake of the rampage on the Capitol, becoming one of the highest profile Cabinet members to do so. Her departure on Friday, after criticizing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, was a dramatic finale for one of the longest-serving, and most controversial, members of the president’s senior administrative team. It closes out one of the most highly charged tenures in the history of the Education Department.
This notoriety could now have implications for the American school system – and for the person who soon steps into the role she has vacated. Pundits were already comparing President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for the role, Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona, to Ms. DeVos, whose central message during her time in office was that “public education” did not need to mean “public schools.” She championed educational innovation and giving families the ability to decide where and how to educate thei
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned last week in the wake of the rampage on the Capitol, becoming one of the highest profile Cabinet members to do so. Her departure on Friday, after criticizing President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, was a dramatic finale for one of the longest-serving, and most controversial, members of the president’s senior administrative team. It closes out one of the most highly charged tenures in the history of the Education Department.
This notoriety could now have implications for the American school system – and for the person who soon steps into the role she has vacated. Pundits were already comparing President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for the role, Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona, to Ms. DeVos, whose central message during her time in office was that “public education” did not need to mean “public schools.” She championed educational innovation and giving families the ability to decide where and how to educate thei
A look back at the most-read stories of the year in higher education IT.
12/15/20
It s been an unusual year, to put things mildly. COVID-19 and remote learning have dominated the discourse in higher education technology circles and that s certainly reflected in the reading habits of Campus Technology s audience of IT decision-makers. Below, in ranked order, are the stories that generated the most interest in 2020.
In the early days of the pandemic, the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University developed an interactive, web-based dashboard that tracks the status of COVID-19 around the world. That tool quickly became the go-to resource for COVID data.