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Acceleration, Not Remediation
Atlanta Public Schools is offering a Recovery Academy this summer, where officials expect to serve more than 20,000 kids.
“Our students will have the opportunity to receive virtual or in-person instruction that will help to address unfinished learning and academic learning loss,” APS Chief Academic Officer Yolanda Brown told the school board recently.
Nonetheless, most Atlanta school districts are taking a new approach to summer instruction.
“We do not use the term remediation; we use the term accelerated intervention,” Cobb County Superintendent Chris Ragsdale said at an April school board meeting. “Remediation indicates … you’re going to slow down. We don’t need students that are behind to be slowed down further. We need them to catch up.”