To catch students up, don t remediate. Accelerate.
To counteract the learning loss associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, one School of Education expert is urging schools to keep students working at grade level rather than repeating lessons they may have missed. By Andrew Myers / Published May 6, 2021
The nation s growing concern over the accumulated student learning loss during COVID-19 is even more acute with respect to low-income communities. These students seldom have the necessary technologies to succeed in an online learning environment; similarly, their school systems often lack resources to prepare teachers for effective online pedagogical practices.
While education experts recognize the challenge to help students catch up to grade-level mastery, there is less agreement about what to do to make that happen. The common practice in the United States has been to try to take student backwards and teach them the missed skills from
As Students Return To Classrooms, One Group Is Noticeably Still Learning at Home: Asian Americans
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Campus Monitor Nolan Gregoire disinfects a slide at Greer Elementary in Arden-Arcade, Thursday, April 8, 2021.
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When Elk Grove Unified School District announced it would be starting a hybrid model of schooling this month, with some in-classroom and some remote-class days, parent Winnie Tam Hung says it was a no-brainer: Her two elementary-school aged children would be staying home.
“I’m hesitant because of all this rise in anti-Asian violence,” Hung said. “I experienced a lot of racial bullying as a kid, given this current climate I’m very hesitant about being out in public with my children and sending my children back to school.”
Bay Area must listen to families of color if it wants to reopen schools safely, equitably
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1of2Kim Desai with her homemade sign at the Sunday rally put on by OUSD Parents for Safe Reopening near Lake Merritt, OaklandSam Whiting / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of2Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, a graduate of Skyline High School, flanked by kids from the Oakland Unified School District at Sunday s rally for reopening the schoolsSam Whiting / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Kev Choice said he wondered “where all of the Black and brown people were.”
Choice, a hip-hop artist, activist and music teacher at the Oakland School for the Arts, was referring to the “Schools Not Screens” rally held near Lake Merritt on Feb. 28. The grassroots group OUSD Parents for Safe Reopening organized the event to urge the Oakland Unified School District to quickly reopen schools for in-class instruction. Even Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf attended, and she told th
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The nonprofit Arizona for Latino Leaders In Education, or ALL in Education, has launched a program that gives parents tools to support their children’s education during distance learning and beyond.
The organization’s executive director, Stephanie Parra, said the idea for the new Parent Educator Academy was born from parents’ frustration with distance learning. We want parents to feel equipped to be kind of like that at-home navigator with their student so we definitely want to meet the educational needs of our kids, of the students and the families that we are serving, she said.