Virginia Secretary of Education Aimee Rogstad Guidera spoke members of the Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce last Thursday about Gov. Glenn Youngkin's efforts to raise educational standards. Guidera said business leaders can engage educators about skills they will need in the workforce. ASH DANIEL State Secretary of Education Aimee Rogstad Guidera was Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s
Nation's Report Card highlighted the severe learning loss endured by American children since the pandemic, and no state was spared. Virginia was hit particularly hard by the news.
The Indiana Department of Education recently announced a new partnership with Schoolhouse.world to support students in grades eight through 12 with free tutoring for SAT preparation, math courses and Advanced
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School over the past year has looking nothing even close to normal . Whether it be the way that teachers are expected to plan and instruct from home or empty classrooms to the way the students have been expected to just get behind a screen and have the same beneficial experiences as being in a classroom nothing has been the same. While many argue that this hurdle will make students more resilient, others believe that these measures will have put a burden on students that we will see results of years down the road. Debate aside, I can t imagine having been restricted to online school during a time that there were no sports or activities, too. The best part of school was always, of course, spending time with friends and just being kids!
Khan Academy founder on filling education gaps during COVID
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In this episode of Facing Forward, Margaret Brennan talks with Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy a digital learning non-profit known for its online education tools worldwide. Brennan and Khan take a closer look at the race to get America s kids caught up after a lost year and what the future looks like for remote learning.
HighlightsOn remote learning replacing in-person lessons: I ll be the first to say that if I had to pick for myself or my own children or anyone else s children between an in-person amazing teacher- if I had to pick between that and the fanciest distance learning online artificial intelligence, I would pick the in-person human amazing teacher every time. So I ll be the first to say that pure online or distance learning is- cannot be a substitute for an amazing in-person teacher. On post-COVID disaster recovery : I think we have to make the best of the constraints that w