Beyond reopening schools: How education can emerge stronger than before COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in at least one positive thing: a much greater appreciation for the importance of public schools. As parents struggle to work with their children at home due to school closures, public recognition of the essential caretaking role schools play in society has skyrocketed. As young people struggle to learn from home, parents’ gratitude for teachers, their skills, and their invaluable role in student well-being, has risen. As communities struggle to take care of their vulnerable children and youth, decisionmakers are having to devise new mechanisms for delivering essential services from food to education to health care, say Emiliana Vegas and Rebecca Winthrop, both Center for Universal Education, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, in their report 'Beyond reopening schools: How education can emerge stronger than before COVID-19'.