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Anya Kamenetz It's been 11 months since schools first shut down across the country and around the world. And most students in the U.S. are still experiencing disruptions to their learning — going into the classroom only a few days a week or not at all. To respond to this disruption, education leaders are calling for a reinvention of public education on the order of the Marshall Plan, the massive U.S. initiative to rebuild Western Europe after the devastations of World War II. It won't be cheap, they say. The White House has put forward a plan that includes $130 billion in aid for K-12 schoo...

Keep Schools Open All Summer, And Other Bold Ideas To Help Kids Catch Up

© Stewart L. Gilmore. Courtesy of Ian Brock Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ian Brock was fascinated by computers and mathematics at a very early age. He taught himself programming, leaving school in the eighth grade to study independently. The young African American man also became aware that members of ethnic minorities were not broadly encouraged to enter technological professions, and so, at the age of 12, he founded Dream Hustle Code, an organization that teaches coding and other skills to members of underserved and underprivileged communities: “We focus on students who are underrepresente...