Anya Kamenetz
It s been 11 months since schools first shut down across the country and around the world.
And most students in the U.S. are still experiencing disruptions to their learning going into the classroom only a few days a week or not at all.
To respond to this disruption, education leaders are calling for a reinvention of public education on the order of the Marshall Plan, the massive U.S. initiative to rebuild Western Europe after the devastations of World War II.
It won t be cheap, they say. The White House has put forward a plan that includes $130 billion in aid for K-12 schools. One estimate puts the full cost of recovery even higher: $12,000 per student over five years, about a 20% increase in spending for large districts.
Global Nonprofit Launches High Dosage Tutoring Program in North Chicago to Combat COVID-19
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Innovations for Learning, a global education nonprofit, and North Chicago School District 187 have launched a high dosage tutoring program to catch up students who have fallen behind in beginning reading due to COVID-19 school closures.
“IFL is proud to be partnering with North Chicago to combat the effects of COVID-19”, said Seth Weinberger, founder of IFL. “Learning to read is a civil right. Across America, young students are being deprived of the right to a quality education when they are not taught to read proficiently.