Author: Matt Barnum
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Biden promises guidance, vaccines to get schools open, though familiar challenges loom
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On his first full day in office, President Joe Biden said his administration would do everything it could to help schools reopen their buildings in the coming months. The new administration released a detailed national COVID response plan Thursday that includes creating a clearinghouse of best practices for schools, tracking school openings, ratcheting up virus…
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Did students fall behind this spring? Yes, but not as much as feared, new data shows
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How much learning did students really lose this spring? This summer, education organizations offered fairly dire predictions: Thanks to widespread school closures, students would be starting the school year dramatically behind. But newer data indicates those projections were overstated. Most students did begin this school year behind where they would have been in math, test results…
