While we continue to track important data points across the country to assess the safety of returning to classrooms, and while we try to measure the impact of the pandemic based on standards attainment, there is some encouraging news… and it’s all based on opinion. A post last week from The Brookings Institution almost-everyone-is-concerned-about-k-12-students-academic-progress/ reminds…
While schools undoubtedly need some degree of accountability in order to assess effectiveness and identify areas for continual improvement, one of the major lessons from this past year of intermittent instruction was that effective education involves the entire learning community. Parents, libraries, and even municipalities all play significant roles in supporting kids’ learning. Unnecessary challenges…
I like The 74 and read their updates most mornings… Todays’ piece on 40,000 LA high school students being off track falls into a common trap as it outlines a number of distressing facts that we’ve heard or anticipated for this past year… (https://www.the74million.org/article/report-learning-loss-data-shows-40000-los-angeles-high-school-students-off-track-to-graduate) But we continue to ‘skate to where the puck is, not…
