- “How teachers’ unions are influencing decisions on school reopenings.” —Education Week
- The closures of preschools during the pandemic will leave many children unprepared for Kindergarten, especially those from low-income backgrounds. —USA Today
- Research consistently finds that students of color and those from low-income families have suffered steep learning losses, often worse than White and wealthier peers. —Washington Post
- District schools should follow the lead of their cost-effective charter school peers, as research shows they produce better results than peers despite receiving less per-pupil funding. —Washington Post
- We should be cautious about reopening schools and consider how limited the existing data is on virus transmission rates at schools. —FutureEd
- Thanks to federal aid, states have been able to fund schools fairly well during the crisis. But future budget challenges could bring difficult spending cuts. —Chalkbeat
- Naomi Schaefer Riley reviews Jeff Hobbs’s Show Them You’re Good, which profiles teen boys from different backgrounds entering adulthood and reveals how the “process by which boys become men in modern America is broken.” —AEI
- We need to mobilize a national army of tutors, much as the U.K. has, to help the students who have fallen behind during the pandemic. —Marc Tucker
- “California Assembly leaders press for all districts to resume in-school teaching in the spring.” —EdSource
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