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Schools, teachers and parents nationwide are now grappling with how best to help students who might have fallen behind after more than a year of interrupted learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In some districts, parents are being asked to consider holding children back a grade.
David Steiner, director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, is available to discuss how schools can help students make up for these missed months of education, and, how retention might not be the best solution.
March 25, 2021 Tags: COVID-19, David M. Steiner, Education, Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, Johns Hopkins University, Pandemic, remote education, retention
| Category: Education/K-12
The United States is approaching the one-year anniversary of the pandemic forcing the closure of offices and schools across the country, launching millions of Americans into remote work and schooling.
Johns Hopkins University experts who have been studying the short and long-term impacts of these changes are available to speak about the possible implications of WFH and SchoolFH on the future of work and education.
March 2, 2021 Tags: Annette C. Anderson, Christopher Morphew, COVID-19, David Steiner, Hunter Gehlbach, Johns Hopkins, Matthew Kahn, Odis Johnson, one-year anniversary, Pandemic, remote education, Rick Smith, telework, work from home
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Public Health
