What COVID-19 revealed about US schools — and 4 ways to rethink education | Nora Flanagan

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The abrupt shift to online learning due to COVID-19 rocked the US education system, unearthing many of the inequities at its foundation. Educator Nora Flanagan says we can reframe this moment as an opportunity to fix what's long been broken for teachers, students and families — and shares four ways schools can reinvent themselves for a post-pandemic world.

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21 Comments on What COVID-19 revealed about US schools — and 4 ways to rethink education | Nora Flanagan

  1. As a teacher I can’t wait to get away from this online teaching nonsense that has isolated our kids, and made them hate learning. Good riddance to bad rubbish, when we get back to normal.

    • Sure thing. I teach 7th grade. Surely it is better to have students breathing safely at home than to be intubated in a hospital, or at a parent’s funeral.
      We will be bad teachers if we let them and their communities get sick or die.

  2. She spoke true and good. Those words hold meaning, value and power. Thst was an amazing TED talk and she is a brave woman. And I agree with her. Some of those ideas can be implemented everywhere. Not just Amwrica but Europe and other parts of the world to. But it is true what they say. Sometimes you just need an Idea and will to change the world.

  3. I definitely agree with Option 4. The exams in all of the U.S.A and other countries like the UK are outdated. I don’t believe that me and the other students taking exams need to learn absolutely everything in the syllabus. They should teach us the stuff that we really need then teach us the stuff that is truly useful like how to manage your finances, how to get a job etc.

  4. Democrats have run Chicago since 1931. If there are problems with inequality, technology and institutional racism, try checking your leadership

  5. Small class sizes? What about a return to the K-8, one room schoolhouse? Where relationship between teacher and students mattered and not just a 45 minute clock check

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