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As the pandemic took hold, more than 1 million children did not enroll in local schools. Many of them were the most vulnerable: 5-year-olds in low-income neighborhoods

  >>Dana Goldstein, The New York Times  Published: 09 Apr 2021 09:50 AM BdST Updated: 09 Apr 2021 09:50 AM BdST Almarie Frazier with her 12-year old daughter, Kamari, and 7-year old son, Wayne, at home in Oakland, Calif, March 28, 2021.The New York Times Over the past year, Deprece Bonilla, a mother of five in Oakland, California, has gotten creative about helping her children thrive in a world largely mediated by screens. "); } She signed them up for online phonics tutoring and virtual martial arts lessons. If they are distracted inside the family’s duplex, she grabs snacks and goes w...

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan The NY Times published a story yesterday which notes that some educators have proposed a terrible new way to deal with pandemic learning loss among students: Don’t test for it so we don’t know how bad it is. You’ve probably heard by now that a bunch of research suggests the last year has been terrible for many K-12 students, particularly those in public schools. Online learning has been a real struggle for a lot of kids, to the point that some have simply disappeared and have given up trying. In some cases the impact on kids goes beyond learning deficits to seriou...