Rural schools have a backlog of infrastructure needs that will make reopening riskier for students and staff. Funds from the Moving Forward Act should be earmarked to make those improvements. Classrooms with poor ventilation, busted light bulbs and limited space for social distancing. Broken pipes, bad internet connections and teachers […]
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What most kids experienced this spring was not online, virtual or blended education. At best, it was crisis schooling. It’s time to shift to something better. When asked if schools would be able to go back to “normal,” a superintendent recently quipped, “Normal is a setting on a washing machine.” […]
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A bill passed by the House of Representatives would help address some of the deficiencies in school infrastructure. Poorly maintained or out-of-date ventilation systems in rural and urban schools could complicate districts’ plans to return students to traditional classrooms this fall. An estimated four out of every 10 public school […]
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Using technology to enhance education is normal for ten-year-old Cora Maddox from Boone County, Kentucky. She has severe apraxia which her mom Angie Maddox said “is like being trapped in your own mind.” Cora understands everything that’s said to her, Angie explains, but when her brain tells her mouth an […]
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The school bus begins picking up children before 6 a.m. in Elaine, Arkansas, a small, mostly African American town on the Mississippi River floodplains about 120 miles east of Little Rock. It crawls past long stretches of oxbow lakes, acres of soybean and cotton fields, and two closed schools to […]
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On paper, consolidating South Robeson County High School in rural North Carolina might make sense. But how do we account for the intangible losses like community identity, cohesiveness and social investment? A few weeks ago, the Robeson County, North Carolina, Board of Education voted to close South Robeson High School, […]
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