covid
Should Schools Offer More Remote Options?
As schools across the country return to in-person learning, parents are divided. We thought the pandemic was over and, suddenly, with the surge of the…
Schools Will Spend Millions on Tutoring This Year — Here’s How to Do It Right
As the new school year kicks off, states and districts are launching tutoring programs using federal and state COVID-relief funding. A strong, consistent evidence base…
EXPLAINED: The Emergency Broadband Benefit and How to Make Sure It Reaches Families Who Need It
What is the FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit program? On May 12, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program to help…
Families Have School Options, We Just Don’t Spell Them Out in Plain English
Over my 15 years of working in education, I have grown to appreciate that parents are far more savvy, knowledgeable, and resourceful than policy wonks…
As Grown-Ups Argue Over Reopening Schools, Chicago’s Kids Lose
Chicago Public Schools students are back in school. Well, some of them are. It’s complicated, and getting messier by the minute. WBEZ Chicago has more…
Our Schools Need to Do More. They Should Look to Charters and Early Childhood for Answers.
Confronted with a pandemic unprecedented in modern life, schools began delivering meals at home, providing free internet and devices, offering mental health supports and developing…
How to Help Beginning Readers During the Pandemic
Before the pandemic, many American children struggled to read well. Now, the pandemic has thrown early elementary teachers a curve ball in teaching reading; they…
It’s Online But It’s Still School. Here Are 4 Tips for Your Child’s Success.
It’s late August and school is happening from home. The pandemic has forced us to reimagine school whether we like it or not. Remote learning…
Black People, We’re Tired. But Letting Up on Education Is Letting Up on Our Kids.
For the past few weeks I’ve been going in on everything and everybody I feel has a hand in blocking the progression of and crusade…
Let’s Get This Bag From the Government to Build Our Freedom Schools
Black people, it’s time to claim our bag and finally build an educational system that works for us! Back in March I wrote about how…
