COVID-19 is over, and the lockdowns and school closures are in the past. A lot of normal people don’t want to think about the weeks or months they spent fake-homeschooling their children, not seeing other families, avoiding their grandmother, and washing their groceries because it’s all kind of shameful to think about.
The Nation’s Report Card landed with a thud last month. According to the National Assessment for Education Progress’s annual report, America is failing its students.
A program in Marion County is looking to bridge the “summer slump” gap. Indy Summer Learning Labs is focused on catching students up, particularly students hit hard by e-learning.
While inflation is putting the heaviest burden on the poorest, the relatively well-off are coming under the sort of pressure to make cuts in household budgets not seen in years.
PLEASANTON, Calif. (KGO) Middle and high school students in Pleasanton returned to the classroom Thursday for the first time in a year. The school district is the first in Alameda County to open up schools to older kids. Pleasanton elementary schools opened last week. I think it s not about being first, it s about being there for kids and we were able to get our ducks in a row, so to speak, said Superintendent David Haglund.
Haglund is now getting calls from school districts across the state looking at him as an example. I was talking to a board member from Southern California last night and my response to her question was- it s about the village. If the village gets together and works together, we can make things happen. But it does take everybody, he said.