Episode 84: Post Pandemic K-12 Education: Why We Don't Want a Return to "Normal"
What comes next when we emerge from the COVID-19 lockdown? What is "normal" is going to be like?
Well in the case of America's K-12 schools we should not want a return to normal, where "normal" means a nation where fewer than 30% of students - and fewer than 15% in poor communities - read, write, spell, do math or know history, science, or civics on grade level.
"With the doors to most of K-12 schools shut for the rest of the academic year and beyond, it's time to implement a dramatically different way of educating our nation's youth, and make it stick," explains my guest Jeanne Allen.
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