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A father helps his daughter with homework at Christopher House, a school with a two-generation approach in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report
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If this pandemic has shown us anything, it’s that our nation’s families are incredibly resilient. As one parent shared in Ascend at the Aspen Institute’s Parent Voices research, “we have no choice.” In addition to navigating a global pandemic, social isolation, increased stress and barriers to distance learning, many families are facing complex, overlapping challenges such as underfunded schools; food, income and housing insecurity, which can be exacerbated by involvement in the child welfare system; entanglement with corrupt justice systems; and systemic racism. Parents and caregivers have had to assume the r