When students return to campuses in coming months, they’ll be carrying their backpacks, notebooks, and a host of shortfalls and deficits accrued over a year’s worth of remote learning.
Some will come back with losses in reading, math or other subjects that they couldn’t master over Zoom classes. Others will show up nervous about meeting classmates they haven’t seen this year, and teachers they know only from screens. Kindergarteners may have missed the building blocks of early literacy, and basic steps in social development. High school seniors, meanwhile, will transition to young adulthood, jobs and college without most of the milestones the senior year usually promises.
As schools plan for social distancing and symptom checks for returning students, they will also need to bridge the gaps left by a year of pandemic, lockdowns and virtual learning. We asked educators and…
