(Courtesy of the San Bernardino City Unified School District)
As much as these school systems’ choices reflect reluctance among some parents, many parents ardently support returning to campus right away. In Santa Ana, a district survey showed 55% of parents favored a “hybrid” reopening in which students would return to campus part-time.
“We see our kids, every day, struggle to find the motivation to wake up, to log on and to finish,” said parent Lucy Solorzano, who called in to
a March 23 Santa Ana school board meeting audibly upset. “So many of our kids are failing. How many of our students are not going to graduate?”
Domenika Lynch
Domenika Lynch is a purpose-driven, strategic and inspirational leader, a champion for women’s rights and social equity, and a longtime advocate for the Latino community.
Over the course of two decades in leadership roles, Lynch has overseen strategic planning, policy advocacy, and public affairs campaigns for nonprofits and corporations, increasing donor and stakeholder support and raising millions of dollars for organizational endowments. She skillfully facilitates internal and external relationships for maximum social impact, prioritizes mentoring, and empowering the next generation of leaders.
Lynch leads the Latinos and Society Program at the Aspen Institute. The Program focuses on shared learning across communities of influencers on the critical barriers preventing greater Latino achievement, and a space to identify, promote, and catalyze ideas and solutions that increase opportunities for American Latinos. All of AILAS programming is rooted in the goal
A Program of Research on the Role of Race in Adolescent Academic and Social Life Online
May 10 @ 1:00 pm - 1:50 pm
Drawing on developmental theories of race, this presentation will synthesize two decades of research on the messages adolescents send and receive about race online. From articles on the contributions of one’s racial-ethnic group to viral videos of police killings, it outlines how engagement with race-related content and discussions online impacts academic, behavioral and mental health outcomes.
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Brendesha Tynes, Associate Professor of Education & Psychology, USC Rossier School of Education, Founding Director of Center for Empowered Learning and Development with Technology
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Schools are stumbling out of the pandemic’s shadow transfigured, cleaved in two as they teach some children in classrooms and others at home, remotely. Originally imagined as a time-limited response, that duality is reshaping schools for next year, and possibly longer, prompting new questions about how separate and how equal remote learners’ educational experiences will be.
If even 20 percent of students learn virtually next year, that would create “a whole new parallel track for schools,” said Heather Schwartz, a RAND Corp. researcher who led a recent study showing that 1 in 5 districts were planning or considering a fully remote learning option for 2021-22. Before the pandemic, less than half of 1 percent of U.S. K-12 students studied virtually, according to 2018-19 federal data
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Pepperdine University is using
2U to power a new, online Master of Public Policy and Leadership (MPPL) degree, according to 2U and keypath Education. Financial details of the win for 2U were not announced. 2U said the move is its first partnership with the Pepperdine University in the Public Policy area. 2U has an office in Los Angeles, and got its start in Los Angeles before its IPO in 2014, having launched with an online degree at USC s Rossier School of Education.