COVID-19 Impact | With remote learning, a 12-year-old knows her English is slipping away
In New York City, the Department of Education does not yet have estimates on learning loss for the city’s roughly 142,000 English language learner students among the largest populations of English learners in the country. It is also not clear how many of those students opted into hybrid as opposed to full-remote learning. New York Times December 29, 2020 / 11:04 PM IST
Taniya Ria, 12, who is learning remotely, with her mother, Rokeya Khatun, in New York. (PC-The New York Times/Ismail Ferdous)
When Taniya Ria moved to the Bronx from Bangladesh in 2019, she didn’t know a word of English. Within months, Taniya, now 12, was translating for her mother, making American friends in class and getting good grades. Then the pandemic arrived.
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