The Hechinger Report – Beth Rabbitt
“Beyond technical challenges, school closures have surfaced big vulnerabilities in our educational systems. Some are obvious, such as inequities in access to resources needed to continue learning at home. Others, such as our reliance on “seat time” as a measure of progress, will be more evident over time — we need to quickly understand and orient around actual mastery of skills and knowledge to meet individuals where they are rather than where we’d predict them to be. Looming further out is our ability, or inability, to respond to the possibility of future rolling closures or student and teacher absences due to the coronavirus.” (more)