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What we're reading this week: March 18, 2021

The Education Gadfly
3.18.2021
  • High-dosage tutoring can do more than help recover learning loss. It can build human connections. —Christian Science Monitor
  • Making the American Rescue Plan’s child tax credit permanent would create an opportunity for bipartisanship—and for parents to invest in their children’s education. —Michael Gerson
  • Why Majority Leader Schumer and AFT President Randi Weingarten supported almost $3 billion in relief aid for private schools. —New York Times
  • A suburban Ohio superintendent, Tim Weber, managed to reopen schools and keep peace between competing community interests. —Wall Street Journal
  • An Illinois district made gifted programs accessible to students of color. Can others do the same? —Hechinger Report
  • “Why learning pods might outlast the pandemic.” —New Yorker
  • “Lessons from the pandemic that can improve leading and teaching.” —Education Week
  • A USC survey helps explain the racial divide in attitudes about reopening schools. —Center on Reinventing Public Education
  • Despite requests for guidance from local officials, New York’s state government keeps punting on school pandemic protocols. —New York Post
  • Five ways that public schooling should change in the wake of the pandemic. —Nina Rees
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