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Updated December 22, 2020 5:53 p.m. EST By Eric Litke, PolitiFact reporter The ideological split on in-person schooling during the pandemic was pretty predictable through most of 2020. Those who generally favored lockdowns and other strong mitigation measures opposed in-person schooling, while those who derided lockdowns, mask orders and the like typically supported it. Like much related to COVID-19, however, positions have shifted on this issue as more data and studies have emerged. One prominent Wisconsin Republican says that research now supports a more widescale return to the classroo...

Fiction still a dominant force in the movement to strengthen childhood reading Jay Mathews, The Washington Post Dec. 12, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Children's books stacked in a home in Washington D.C.photo for The Washington Post by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades. I like fiction. I even know some talented people who make money composing it. But as a nonfiction writer, when I go into schools I am sad that the books students choose to read are almost always fiction. A child thinks: Nonfiction? You mean textbooks. Ugh. That's supposed to be changing. The Common Core State Standards, which have had a ma...