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It's not ironic at all to realize that remote learning is worsening racial and economic disparities in education. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and

It's not ironic at all to realize that remote learning is worsening racial and economic disparities in education. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/covid-19-and-learning-loss-disparities-grow-and-students-need-help https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector...

ceejayoz 5y ago
In-person learning does, too. Districts with more minority students tend to have larger class sizes. Fewer technology resources. Less property tax to draw upon. In-person instruction - which 95% of American schools were doing in January of this year, and 99% of them in December (https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-12-15/nearly-100-of-students-back-to-school-full-time-and-in-person https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-12-...) - isn't gonna solve these structural problems. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-person-learning-wasnt-magic-bullet-many-hoped-teens-are-still-sufferi-rcna16878 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-person-learning-wasnt-... > Hailey is not alone. As the U.S. reaches the second anniversary of the pandemic, a growing number of parents and psychiatrists report that a return to in-person learning was not the magic bullet many had hoped it would be for school-age children and that the pandemic has resulted in a host of mental health challenges even for those young people who seemed as recently as a year ago to be faring relatively well.
- chelical 5y ago
  Remote learning makes these gaps wider. Yes, they already exist. But making things worse for minorities isn't the solution imo. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/covid-19-has-left-millions-of-students-behind-now-what/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/covid-19-has-left-milli...
- thethimble 5y ago
  The claim is not that in person learning fundamentally solves these problems. The claim is that remote learning makes these problems worse, offering a clear rationale to return back to in person learning.
  - ceejayoz 5y ago
    The causes for the inequity in remote learning are the same ones causing the inequity in in-person learning, though.

ceejayoz 5y ago

In-person learning does, too. Districts with more minority students tend to have larger class sizes. Fewer technology resources. Less property tax to draw upon. In-person instruction - which 95% of American schools were doing in January of this year, and 99% of them in December (https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-12-15/nearly-100-of-students-back-to-school-full-time-and-in-person https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-12-...) - isn't gonna solve these structural problems. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-person-learning-wasnt-magic-bullet-many-hoped-teens-are-still-sufferi-rcna16878 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-person-learning-wasnt-... > Hailey is not alone. As the U.S. reaches the second anniversary of the pandemic, a growing number of parents and psychiatrists report that a return to in-person learning was not the magic bullet many had hoped it would be for school-age children and that the pandemic has resulted in a host of mental health challenges even for those young people who seemed as recently as a year ago to be faring relatively well.

chelical 5y ago
Remote learning makes these gaps wider. Yes, they already exist. But making things worse for minorities isn't the solution imo. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/covid-19-has-left-millions-of-students-behind-now-what/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/covid-19-has-left-milli...
thethimble 5y ago
The claim is not that in person learning fundamentally solves these problems. The claim is that remote learning makes these problems worse, offering a clear rationale to return back to in person learning.
- ceejayoz 5y ago
  The causes for the inequity in remote learning are the same ones causing the inequity in in-person learning, though.