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As schools reopen, will Black and Asian families return?

The Hechinger Report

While many families are eager for a return to in-person learning this fall, others are not: Surveys show that some families are reluctant to return — and, that Black and Asian families are the most likely to feel this way. Covid-related health concerns are one reason: People of color have been disproportionately impacted by the virus.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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Conner categorized the past, present, and future as Before COVID, During COVID, and After COVID, pointing out a radical shift in education occurred on Friday the 13th in March of 2020, when schools were shut down across the United States. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020. As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. 2011-2020: From Early Adopters To Mainstream Adoption. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. Does everyone feel valued? To pursue equity, schools must understand three key principles.

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PROOF POINTS: The value of one-size-fits-all math homework

The Hechinger Report

Advocates call this concept “personalized learning” but this sci-fi idyll (or dystopia, depending on your point of view) has been slow to catch on in American classrooms. The study, set to test how well the students learned math in spring of 2020, was derailed by the pandemic. But a private foundation salvaged it.

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

airing on Discovery in 2020.) In 2003, before the existence of YouTube, she founded ProjectExplorer.org, a free multimedia website designed to educate primary and secondary school students about global issues and world cultures and histories. A replica of his classroom was installed in the US Botanic Gardens in Washington, DC.