As schools across California welcome back more students on campus, some distance learning practices look likely to survive the pandemic.
School closures exposed deeply embedded inequalities in California education, as well as the crucial lifelines that schools provide for their communities. But in nearly 12 months of distance learning, teachers pushed through difficult days to find new solutions that kept kids learning during an upended school year.
Now, hope is on the horizon: Teachers are getting vaccinated, case rates are significantly lower, and schools are being offered special funding to assist in reopening. With that, some parts of distance learning appear to be finding a long-term place in the classroom.
Originally published on March 8, 2021 3:44 am
One year after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered classrooms around the country and the world, U.S. parents are guardedly optimistic about the academic and social development of their children, an NPR/Ipsos poll finds.
But 62% of parents say their child s education has been disrupted. And more than 4 out of 5 would like to see schools provide targeted extra services to help their kids catch up. This includes just over half of parents who support the idea of summer school.
The nation has lacked solid national data on precisely where classrooms are open to students. In our survey, half of parents said their children were learning virtually, a third were attending in person full time, and the remainder were in person part time. As other polls have found, Black and Hispanic parents were far more likely than white parents to say their children were all remote 65% for Black parents, 57% for Hispanic parents and 38% for white parents.
West Contra Costa Unified plans to confront widespread learning loss and prepare students of all grades for the “new normal” of returning to the classroom by enhancing its summer school, which will mostly be in-person.
Officials of the 30,000 student district in the East Bay presented their plans for summer school at a school board meeting Feb. 24 ; the district includes the communities of Richmond, El Cerrito, San Pablo, Hercules and Pinole, and more than two-thirds of its students fall into the California Department of Education’s “socioeconomically disadvantaged” subgroup. West Contra Costa appears to be one of the first large districts in the state to announce in-person summer school, which is slated to begin June 14 the Monday after the traditional school year ends. The program goes beyond the district’s typical summer offerings and includes credit recovery opportunities at every high school, “bridge programming” to get students ready for the next grade, colle
East Bay school district among 1st to offer in-person summer school
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RICHMOND, Calif. - West Contra Costa Unified plans to confront widespread learning loss and prepare students of all grades for the new normal of returning to the classroom by enhancing its summer school, which will mostly be in-person.
District officials presented their plans for summer school at a school board meeting Feb. 24.
West Contra Costa appears to be one of the first large districts in the state to announce in-person summer school, which is slated to begin June 14 the Monday after the traditional school year ends.
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One year after the coronavirus pandemic shuttered classrooms around the country and the world, U.S. parents are guardedly optimistic about the academic and social development of their children, an NPR/Ipsos poll finds.
But 62% of parents say their child s education has been disrupted. And more than 4 out of 5 would like to see schools provide targeted extra services to help their kids catch up. This includes just over half of parents who support the idea of summer school.
The nation has lacked solid national data on precisely where classrooms are open to students. In our survey, half of parents said their children were learning virtually, a third were attending in person full time, and the remainder were in person part time. As other polls have found, Black and Hispanic parents were far more likely than white parents to say their children were all remote 65% for Black parents, 57% for Hispanic parents and 38% for white parents.