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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

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Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. But as of October, more than 10,000 students from kindergarten through sixth grade had chosen to remain in virtual school , the most of any district in the state or the Washington, D.C. metro area. This is a lot better.

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‘Next year will be a better year’: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part III

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We have classroom tutors now. Mask mandates in place at the beginning of the school year faced some resistance and were lifted in the spring. Ben Lawson , band and choir director at Redmond High School. Ben Wilson and Kami Karr stand outside of Redmond High School, in Oregon. Every day there are more adults.

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Plunging NAEP scores make clear the long and difficult road ahead to pandemic recovery

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Educators have also cited school violence and staffing shortages.And some parents of children with special needs are suing school systems for failing to provide services to their children when schools were closed. Related: An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling.

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“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

The Hechinger Report

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Then we ran into an issue with the high school girls basketball team all quarantined. We’re still keeping kids in school. We’re a small, rural school. We had a tutor. And boys wrestling.

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Teaching about the climate crisis: Jubilant protests, restorative justice and role play

The Hechinger Report

I had a summer job between tutoring and teaching, installing solar panels. In the book you include Emis school assignments on the great transition along with written feedback from her teacher. I also remember doing a big project on the New Deal in high school, and I just felt completely detached from it.

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