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You are here: Home / Home WHAT SCHOOL LOOKS LIKE IN DENMARK April 17, 2020 by JoanneLeave a Comment
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Denmark reopened elementary schools this week, reports Patrick Kingsley in the _New York Times._ > To stop the spread of infection, parents weren’t allowed inside. > Teachers couldn’t gather in the staff room. The children each now > had their own desks, marooned two yards away from their nearest > neighbor. During recess, they could play only in small groups. And > by the time the school shut again at 2 p.m., they had all washed > their hands at least once an hour for the past six hours. The Danes started with day-care centers and elementary schools so parents can get back to work as the economy reopens. In the village of Logumkloster, where there have been “no known victims” of coronavirus, most children are back in school > Teachers aim to do as much teaching as possible outdoors. And > instead of arriving through a single entrance, pupils must enter > through several side doors, depending on the location of their> classroom.
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> Classes have been divided into two or three subgroups, with each new > grouping given its own room and designated teacher.>
> Those teachers now work with only one small group throughout the > day, rather than several bigger ones, and their students play only > with children from their own class. To keep class sizes small, teaching assistants are now teaching theirown classes.
Children are not wearing masks. Filed Under: Health ,International
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REOPENING SCHOOLS WON’T KILL 2-3% OF KIDS April 17, 2020 by JoanneLeave a Comment
Celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz doesn’t advocate reopening schools because only “2 to 3 percent” of children will die,
despite what you may have seen on social media. Robby Soave explains on _Reason_. > On his Wednesday night show, Sean Hannity asked what should be done > to get the economy going again. Oz replied: “Schools are a very > appetizing opportunity. I just saw a nice piece in _The > Lancet_ arguing the opening of schools may only cost us 2–3 > percent in terms of total mortality. Any life is a life lost but to > get every child back into a school where they are safely being > educated, being fed, and making the most of their lives, with the > theoretical risk on the back side, might be tradeoff some folks > would consider.” A 2-3 percent rise in “total mortality” doesn’t mean a 2-3 percent rise among school children or the population at large, Soave writes. Dr. Oz was citing a _ Lancet_ article that estimated Britain’s school closures will reduce overall deaths by 2-4 percent. “In other words, if there are 100,000 COVID-19 deaths despite the schools being closed, having had the schools open anyway would have yielded 2,000–4,000 additional deaths.” (I blogged about the British analysisearlier this week.)
Closing schools hurts children, the researchers wrote in _Lancet_. “Following school closures amidst the west African Ebola epidemic, rates of child labour, neglect, sexual abuse, and adolescent pregnancies spiked, and many children never returned to school.” The coronavirus recession is more dangerous to children than the virus, says the UN. Photo: Amevi Wisdom/Unsplash The United Nations warned yesterday that “the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic may be more dangerous than the virus itself for the world’s children, claiming that in 2020 hundreds of thousands could dieand
tens of millions more be plunged into poverty,” reports Carlie Porterfield on Forbes. A _New York Times Magazine_ discussion on the costs of reopening U.S. businesses, schools and churches.
deals with tradeoffs. Maintaining a lockdown until there’s a vaccine — say for 18 months — will impoverish many Americans and break our social bonds, says Zeke Emanuel, director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He worries about rising “deathsof despair”
from
drugs, alcohol and suicide. Murders arising from domestic abuse are up sharply in Britain since the lockdown, and U.S. police officials report more domestic violencecalls.
Stay-at-home orders lower the mortality rate from motor-vehicle accidents and pollution, said economist Anne Case, co-author of _Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism_.
It takes longer to see the effect of unemployment on the mortality rate. However, “isolation is a risk factor,” she says. > Community is lost, people breaking bread together. If you can’t go > to church because your church is closed, if you’re in recovery and > you can’t go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, if you can’t go > see your parents and get some solace from them, then yes, I think > that that kind of isolation puts people at higher risk for drugs and > alcohol and suicide. But the risk of death from Covid-19 is larger > than someone dying from the use of alcohol or drugs. There are now > around 50,000 suicides in the United States each year. Pit that > against how many lives we can save by keeping social distancing > longer, and I think I’d weigh in favor of social distancing. Emily Bazelon, the moderator, asks about reopening schools, pointing out that “while young people can get very sick from Covid-19, it’s older people who are dying disproportionately from this virus. ” Emanuel wants to reopen schools as long as teachers, staff and parents opt in, accepting some risk so that children can be educated. Peter Singer, a Princeton bioethicist, agrees that vulnerable adults, such as grandparents, may be willing to take risks. “The average age of death from Covid in Italy is 79½,” he says. “The economist Paul Frijters roughly estimates that Italians lost perhaps an average of three years of life. And that’s very different from a younger person losing 40 years of life or 60 years of life.” Filed Under: Education, Health
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A’S FOR ALL IN SAN FRANCISCO April 16, 2020 by Joanne3 Comments
San
Francisco Unified may give all A’s to middle and high schoolstudents
this term, regardless of past performance or participation in remote learning. A decision will be made later this month. California has recommended using a pass/fail system while schools are closed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Los Angeles Unified has announced all students will passthis term.
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IT’S A CRISIS, NOT AN OPPORTUNITY April 16, 2020 by Joanne2 Comments
The coronavirus pandemic will not transform our schools, argues Fordham’s Robert Pondiscio. We’re not going to “build back better.” The “old normal” will come roaring back. Will we be ready? > “Remote learning” will not be the primary way most American > children are educated for very long, certainly not any time soon. > Neither have we transformed ourselves into a nation of homeschoolers > or “unschoolers” any more than passengers thrown from a sinking > ship into lifeboats can be said to have taken up rowing. Most children want to go back to school, and most of their parents “want it even more strongly,” he writes. > Twenty-one states have already closed schools for the remainder of> the year
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> It is a fantasy to believe that we can stem the effects of months > without real school by ginning up instructional capacity on the fly > in unfamiliar forms in the midst of a public health crisis. By all > means, distribute devices and attack the digital divide. . . . > Schools that have found ways to continue> high-value
> instruction deserve attention and praise> .
> But let’s not gull ourselves into thinking this is some sort > of durable solution> .
> It’s an emergency response, nothing more. “Families are much more unequal than schools“,
writes Paul von Hippel in _Education Next_. Some parents have the time, space, bandwidth and education to help their children learn at home. Others will struggle to keep them housed and fed. Pondiscio worries most about the youngest children, who “are least likely to get any value from remote learning without an active and engaged parent or caregiver working directly and extensively withthem.”
Miami-Dade schools plan to assign “digital mentors” to help the neediest students keep up. Photo: NBC News Will schools be able to hire staff to provide intensive instruction and “high-dosage tutoring” at the start of the school year? Pondiscio suggests grouping students by achievement level, so teachers can provide “targeted instruction with minimal differentiation,” at least for the first six to eight weeks. “Keep it simple,” he writes. “Keep it focused, intense, achievable, and time-limited.” “In Miami, school will extend into the summer and start earlier inthe fall
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for the neediest students, reports the _Washington Post_. “The district plans to redeploy staff members who have less work during the pandemic, forming a new one-to-one digital mentoring program for students who need help.” > In Cleveland, schools may shrink the curriculum to cover only core > subjects. In Columbia, Mo., this year’s lessons will be woven into> next year’s.
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> Some experts suggest holding back more kids, a controversial idea, > while others propose a half-grade step-up for some students, an > unconventional one. A national teachers union is proposing a massive > national summer school program. All this is likely to cost a lot of money. Filed Under: Education, Homeschooling
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WILL WE SEE ‘SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW’ TIME? April 16, 2020 by Joanne1 Comment
In the post-pandemic era, high schools will offer more flexible, personalized competency-based learning options, predicts Tom Vander Ark on Forbes. “Show what you know”
will replace seat time. In addition, he thinks “school closures have been a reminder that learning can happen anywhere. When kids return to school, some schools will respond with more project-based learning connected to local problems and opportunities.” > After parents figure out learning at home, half a million students > won’t go back to school. And a bunch of school districts will get > more aggressive about supporting home schoolers with hybrid learning > centers like Workspace Education> in
> Bethel, Connecticut, and Da Vinci Connect> near Los
> Angeles International Airport. “Post-pandemic, more people will think of education as a public service more than a place,” Vander Ark concludes. We have an opportunity to build back better,
writes Caprice Young. A former Los Angeles Unified school board president, she now leads Learn4Life charter schools, which stress personalized, competency-based learning for at-risk teens and former dropouts. > Students should progress from grade to grade based on their > competency in the subject matter, not how much time they sit in a > classroom. Some students learn best in small groups, others with > one-on-one tutoring or through experimentation. Others thrive in a > classroom model or independently. Older students may not need to be > on campus all day every day, preferring a university-like model. In addition, her vision of the future includes broadening access to technology and investing in online professional development forteachers and staff.
In January, the Hechinger Report looked at competency-based learning in a high-performing Massachusetts district.
Larry Cuban points out that personalized learning means different things to different people.
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trauma-informed education AFTER THE ‘ASTERISK SEMESTER’ . . . April 15, 2020 by Joanne3 Comments
Colleges and universities are taking it easy on students struggling with the abrupt switch to online courses, writes Lilah Burke on _Inside HigherEd_. Many are offering — or requiring — pass/fail grading.
Others have promised that no pre-lockdown grade will be lowered by the end of the year: Students can improve a grade but not do any worse. Photo: Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels The idea is to “lessen students’ anxiety,” she writes. But students hoping to move on to graduate school or transfer community college credits to a four-year school worry that “pass” grades will hurt their chances and online courses may not be counted to fulfill prerequisites. Many colleges and universities also have promised not to penalize high school students who struggle during the “asterisk semester.” Some are easing admissions requirements for next year’s applicants. For example, the University of California has told high school juniors they won’t have to take the SAT or ACT for fall 2021 admissions and will be allowed to submit “pass” grades for this semester. Universities may not offer in-person classes till 2021,
reports CNN. An online-only fall semester would be a financial disaster for already hard-hit institutions, especially the more expensive private schools, many of which will fold. For students who can find jobs in a depressed economy and learn from online classes, it will be a chance to catch up academically, avoid debt and gain experience. But many students don’t learn well online. Filed Under: College ,Online Learning
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LOCKED-OUT 12TH GRADERS WILL GET DIPLOMAS April 15, 2020 by Joanne2 Comments
States and school districts are easing high school graduationrequirements
— for 3.7 million locked-out seniors,
reports Juan Perez Jr. on Politico. In most states, students who were on track to earn a diploma before their school closed will get one, even if they missed online classes. Some states are waiving tests,
giving pass/fail grades and promising pre-closure grades will not godown.
Photo: Ekrulila/Pexels “Colleges might have to rethink how they treat freshmen who didn’t complete a normal last year of high school,” writes Perez. Colleges should provide intensive tutoring, said John King, president and CEO of The Education Trust and a former U.S. secretary of education. Helping students complete the year is only one step, he said. “Higher ed and workforce development programs need to . . . prepare to support entering students who will have missed significant portions of the school year as a result of the closures.” New York City’s public schools have launched “OperationGraduation”
to get as many seniors as possible to a diploma, reports Susan Edelman in the _New York Post_. Chancellor Richard Carranza hopes “to salvage the graduation rate, which was 77.3 percent through August last year, and to pass younger students on to the next grade,” she writes. “Maybe we should grade them on a pass/fail basis, whether they master the material or not, instead of with traditional grades,” he said in a webinar for Brooklyn principals last week, a note-taking participant told the _ Post._ ” If schools close for the rest of the school year — Mayor Bill De Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo don’t agree on who gets to decide — “we’re passing everyone,” a Bronx elementary principal toldEdelman.
The city’s Department of Education is sending iPads to students, but some 200,000 still lack devices and/or WiFi, spokeswoman Miranda Barbot said Saturday. “With many students still without online access, others playing online hooky, state standardized exams canceled and the Regents examswaived
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the pass rates are likely to soar,” writes Edelman. Teachers say they’re under pressure to pass students who’ve doneno work.
> . . . If a student and his or her parent cannot be reached online > or by phone, the kid gets a pass, a Brooklyn high-school teacher > said staff was told.>
> . . . “The kids and their parents just have to not answer the > phone and, voila, they pass,” the teacher said. Elementary “students can get away with doing virtually nothing,” a Manhattan teacher said. “I have just a few kids that do a majority of the work.” Students can “can log on and then leave to play or watch TV,” she said. In Los Angeles Unified schools, no student will get an “F” thissemester
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REOPENING SCHOOLS — CAUTIOUSLY April 14, 2020 by Joanne1 Comment
Denmark is reopening its schoolsfor children 11 and
younger, reports Adrienne Murray for BBC. Tomorrow, April 15, is the start date for day-care centers and elementary schools, though only about half are ready to open,
reports _The Local_. Guidelines call for more space per student, so children can sit six feet apart, no sharing of food, hand washing at least every two hours and regular cleaning of toys and surfaces twice a day. Students will be assigned to play groups of three to five children; most play willbe outside.
Denmark will start reopening schools, but children must sit six feet apart and not share food. To provide more space, Copenhagen schools may use other locations, such as museums and playgrounds. Norway plans to start reopening schools, beginning with kindergartens, on April 20, then expand to older students a week later. In Japan, which starts its school year in April, studentsand parents
are uneasy about the decision to reopen schools in some parts of the country. Schools had closed in late February. Teachers and students will wear masks and wash their hands regularly, and schools are trying to avoid “closed spaces with poor ventilation, crowded conditions with many people and conversations in close proximity,” reports J.J. O’Donoghue in _Japan Times_. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hopes some schools in the state can reopenin May
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“If it’s safe, we want kids to be in school. … Even if it’s for a couple of weeks, we think there would be value in that.” Twenty-one states and three territories have closed schools for the rest of the school year,
reports _Education Week_. Many fear that disadvantaged students will fall far behind if their schools can’t offer in-person education till fall. The Danes and Norwegians are prioritizing day care and elementary schools, hoping to help parents get back to work. I’d like to see U.S. schools find ways to reopen — without crowding — for their neediest students, the kids who aren’t participating or succeeding in remote classes. What if the priority was low-performing fifth-graders facing the transition to middle school, and then eighth-graders about to go on to high school? If it works, expand to high-need students in other grades. Filed Under: Education, Health
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CLOSING SCHOOLS HAS LITTLE IMPACT ON EPIDEMIC April 14, 2020 by Joanne5 Comments
Closing schools will do little to stop the spread of COVID-19,
according to researchers at University College London, reports Kate Kelland for Reuters. > “We know from previous studies that school closures are likely to > have the greatest effect if the virus has low transmissibility and > attack rates are higher in children. This is the opposite of > COVID-19,” said Russell Viner, an expert at UCL’s Great Ormond > Street Institute of Child Health who co-led the research. Viner’s team analyzed studies of “school closures during the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome – a respiratory disease caused by a coronavirus similar to the one that causes COVID-19,” writes Kelland. Closing schools in China, Hong Kong and Singapore “did not contribute to control of the epidemic,” thereport concluded.
Viner said countries should be discussing how to reopen schools with measures to reduce crowding, such as staggering start and break times, eliminating recess and minimizing students’ movement betweenclassrooms.
Here’s an anti-closing commentary by Jennifer Nuzzo, a Johns Hopkins public health professor, that run March 10 in the _New York Times_. She also sees “no clear evidence” that children are getting or spreading COVID-19. Filed Under: Health , Safety Tagged With:closing schools ,
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LATE (OR NO) START FOR REMOTE LEARNING April 13, 2020 by JoanneLeave a Comment
A month after closing the schools, Chicago Public Schools is launchingremote learning
today, reports Sarah Karp at WBEZ. For two weeks, teachers provide enrichment exercises, but didn’t teach the curriculum.Photo: Pixabay
Some schools are putting lessons online, while others will send paper packets to families. There’s a “digital divide” between schools as well as families, a counselor told Karp. “Just like you have students who don’t have technology knowledge and access, their parents — the ones who are at home with them — have some of the same deficits and then you have an instructor who has some of the same deficits.” Schools in Arlington County, Virginia will not teach anything new for the end of the year because of equity concerns, writes Hans Bader on Liberty Unyielding. Students have school-issued devices at home, but school officials fear some may find it harder than others to learn from home. Offering “only a repetitive, low-quality education” violates students’ rights under the Virginia Constitution, Bader argues. Filed Under: EducationTagged With:
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