Chicago will vote on whether to automatically send students up the ladder, regardless of their performance during the coronavirus pandemic, while other districts encourage summer classes.
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A Deep Look at One Classroom
A reporter’s embed with a high school class tells the story of this interrupted, destabilizing school year.
May 14, 2021
The woes of sophomore year
Susan Dominus, a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine, spent much of the school year with one sophomore class in Columbia, Mo. Today we’re breaking our usual weekly schedule to tell you about her phenomenal article chronicling the experience.
“When I started the piece, I thought I was going to write about the academic challenges of remote learning,” Susan said. “It was only when I started speaking to the students that I realized how in depth the psychological problems were that that was a huge defining part of this year.”
Jobs, language barriers and hard-won coronavirus pandemic routines are just some of the reasons that children aren’t going back to classrooms in districts that have reopened.
After a tumultuous year, classrooms are talking about the murder of George Floyd.
April 21, 2021Updated 5:11 p.m. ET
Teaching the Chauvin verdict
On Wednesday, many teachers will have a big topic to discuss with their students: the news that a jury convicted Derek Chauvin of murder for the killing of George Floyd. We reached out to some of the educators who have been in touch with this newsletter to see how they’ll handle it.
Emily Beenen, an English teacher in Albuquerque, N.M., said she will have “just a very simple debrief” with her students, and then ask them some basic questions: What do you think? How do you feel?