MANY SCHOOLS ARE NOT PROVIDING ANY INSTRUCTION
Corona virus shuttered schools and administrators are still trying to figure out how to educate millions of kids.
With School closed for more than 55 million children across the country – and shuttered for the rest of the academic year in seven states – school district leaders are scrambling to establish some kind of distance learning routine.
But the early reality, at least in the country's big city school districts, is that most are not providing any instruction whatsoever.
Not many yet are providing what you'd consider a real coherent educational program," says Robin Lake, the director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, where researchers compiled a database of how teachers and district leaders in 82 school districts that serve more than 9 million children are trying to salvage the school year.
Only 10% across the board are providing any kind of real curriculum and instruction program, which is a little alarming given most of the experts are projecting we're going to be in this mess for quite some time," she says. "I don't mean to pass judgement here. This is a hard, hard problem, but clearly we're seeing a lot of variation."
While not a representative sample of the entire country, the database does include dozens of the biggest school districts in the U.S., including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami Dade and more.