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What we're reading this week: April 22, 2021

The Education Gadfly
4.22.2021
  • Seventy years ago, Prince Edward County closed public schools to deny Black students an education. Fixing inequities worsened by pandemic closures is this generation’s civil rights crisis. —Washington Post
  • “Biden…is expected to propose a half dozen education programs that would constitute the largest federal investment in education in at least a half century.” —Washington Post
  • How to practice band music safely in reopened schools. —Wall Street Journal
  • Black students in South Florida are failing state tests but graduating anyway. —Miami Herald
  • With students returning to classrooms, learning pods are dwindling. —We Are Iowa Local 5 News
  • Public schools should not continue remote learning in the fall based on groundless safety concerns, especially not synchronously with in-person instruction. It will only incur unnecessary staffing and logistics costs. —New York Magazine
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