Despite growing momentum toward reform, many literacy experts warn that many serious obstacles, from the ubiquity of balanced literacy, which avoids phonics in favor of fostering a love of reading, to inadequate teacher training and the proliferation of screens, lie ahead before a transformation in American reading instruction is likely to take root.
Some public health experts are also parents of little kids, and have to strategize to keep those too young to be vaccinated safe from getting or spreading the delta variant. Here are their tips.
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Parents rally for reopening of LAUSD schools
LOS ANGELES - On the heels of LAUSD’s Zoom Blackout, parents took to the streets Saturday to demand schools reopen now. It’s criminal, what UTLA and LAUSD are doing to our children said one of many angry parents at a rally asking that Los Angeles Unified schools reopen now. The event was organized by some of the same leaders behind the LAUSD Zoom blackout, where families refused to log on to online classes, demanding their children be allowed to go back to physical, in class learning.
Showcasing a yellow school bus they dub the Open Schools bus, the large group was pretty loud, but peaceful. Those we spoke to believe that UTLA, which is holding a vote next week on whether their members should return to school or not, is actually using their children as hostages to negotiate with the district.
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Nothing I’ve written has been more affected by a personal conflict of interest than what you are about to read: My wife and I have three elementary-age children who haven’t seen the inside of a classroom since March 11, 2020. That was the day we decided to stop sending our two second-graders to school, before their district suspended in-person classes, and when we canceled our youngest child’s enrollment at a local preschool.
Like many other children whose campuses have yet to reopen, my kids long ago tired of Zoom school. This isn’t to say they’d jump at the chance to break their new routine and run back into the classroom, but as a parent I’ve seen the worrying effects on children who have not been alive much longer than the 11-plus months of enforced isolation they’ve endured.