by Supporting Education | Sep 21, 2020 | News, Teacher Issues
New York City is the country’s largest school district, with more than 1.1 million students at 1,800 schools, taught by approximately 75,000 teachers. The schools alone hold more people than many substantial cities around the world. And they were supposed to go back...
by Supporting Education | Aug 17, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“The emergency remote learning that took place as a result of COVID-19 school closures brought to light disparities in our school communities that made student learning difficult in the pandemic environment,” said South Carolina State Superintendent of Education Molly...
by Supporting Education | Jun 26, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The New Jersey Student Learning Standards (NJSLS), the required curriculum of the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE), applies to the state’s 1.4 million public school students, making sure that education across the state is consistent and equitable. The...
by Supporting Education | May 29, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
At the beginning of April, several weeks after nearly all schools in the United States were shuttered, 4,000 teachers in South Carolina were surveyed about how remote teaching was going. More than 80 percent of those teachers reported that at least one of their...
by Supporting Education | May 22, 2020 | Student Issues, Teacher Issues
While a few states and the president looked for ways to send children back to school beginning in May, most of the country was looking more seriously at September, and at new approaches to how in-person education is organized. If, as both virologists and historians...
