Late Friday afternoon G&T thread 🧵
As @ElizabethSetren points out, I’ve researched accelerated curriculum, finding that the Boston program for late elem increases college enrollment for Black and Latinx students (a lot!) and that impacts are hard to detect if you look only at test scores
TL;DR: In-person schooling in low and medium community spread areas does not contribute to community spread; in-person schooling in high community spread areas does contribute to increased community spread
Dec 1, 2020 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
I’m glad to see schools systems moving towards reopening for younger children as a path out of remote-only, and for systems that are pulling back from in-person schooling to do so in a way that keeps elementary schools open for as long as possible
As pointed out by Eliza Shapiro, a new window to opt-in (perhaps for the new year?) could potentially imperil the possibility of 5 day/week school given #s and distancing
I'll try to address a few questions that seemed to come up frequently here, unfortunately there are so many at this point I can't go through one by one.
Q1: You monster! Middle and high schoolers need in-person instruction and social opportunities too!
A1: Yes. I agree. In an ideal world all students would have an opportunity for f2f. Unfortunately the risk of COVID transmission is higher for older students.
Jun 29, 2020 • 59 tweets • 13 min read
Ok, so no one asked me (well @mathteacherjedi sort of did) what I thought the best plan for reopening schools was. And I haven’t said anything about this, because it’s not my direct area of expertise. 1/
But if I am feeling free to comment and opine on others’ plans (which I do!), it seems like I should put my money where my mouth is and share what I think the best plan for reopening school is. 2/
Jan 15, 2019 • 34 tweets • 13 min read
I’ve been trying to stay off Twitter to focus on writing and my toddler these days, but today people had things to say on the internet about charter schools.
