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Credit...Jun Cen By Jal Mehta Dr. Mehta is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who studies how to transition from rote learning to deep engagement. Dec. 23, 2020 on what life will look like in 2021. If a measure of a society is how well it takes care of its young, the past nine months are a damning indictment of our nation. Parents and teachers have been working overtime under impossible circumstances., and states have prioritized keeping gyms and restaurants open over keeping schools open. A result is that about 48 percent of all students are still in full-time virtual i...

Biden’s choice for Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, has all the personal characteristics many teachers have asked for – a Hispanic educator raised in the projects, a former classroom teacher (for a brief time) who rose through the ranks of school administration, someone who “gets” what it’s like in a classroom. He seems like a real educator.  At the same time, his appointment, suggested by Linda Darling-Hammond, a much-respected liberal expert in education policy, revered in some progressive circles, captures why teacher activists have to see beyond the rhetoric and individu...