Mysa School assigns students to classes based on their skill level, versus their age or grade. They say this improves attendance in chronically absent kids.
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Experts expect children will experience reading loss during the pandemic, but it s unclear how much.
Last spring, a few months into the pandemic when few of us really understood just how long this would drag on, my son had a Zoom call with his pre-K classmates and several of the kindergarten teachers at his New York City public school. The teachers introduced themselves, chatted a bit about what they thought the next year might bring and welcomed questions. One boy asked if he’d be able to bring his favorite stuffed animal to school with him next year; another checked repeatedly to make sure there would be recess. Then one student asked if she and her friends would learn to read in kindergarten, which the teachers answered with an enthusiastic “yes!”