Closing schools must be a last resort

Remote learning has failed to provide anything approaching the quality of education that can be delivered by a teacher in a classroom. Evidence of the failures, particularly for children already at risk, is matched by growing evidence of the relative safety of in-person learning when proper precautions are in place.

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Opinion

December 7, 2020 - 9:16 AM

Since the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic, teachers, principals, administrators and parents across the United States have worked mightily to help students keep learning. Schools developed new curriculums, provided children with portable computers and labored to give some semblance of structure to remote learning. Parents took on larger, unaccustomed roles, troubleshooting tech problems, helping their children understand what was being taught and calming them when they struggled.

Even with these efforts, remote learning has failed to provide anything approaching the quality of…

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