Articles for Closing Schools

School closures: What the data really say about their cost.
1 year ago

School closures: What the data really say about their cost.

Slate  

The headlines were alarming. Yet somehow, the conservative National Review turned this into “If you want to know why your children are in Zoom school, look to your local teachers’ union.” Many on the right were undoubtedly sincerely concerned about the teen mental health crisis, the decline in test scores, and the growth of the gap in academic skills between …

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Column: Closing schools in the pandemic was bad. Keeping them all open would have been worse
2 years, 1 month ago

Column: Closing schools in the pandemic was bad. Keeping them all open would have been worse

LA Times  

A pupil at Weaverville Elementary School in Weaverville, Calif., works on a classroom assignment in March 2021, when rural schools remained open despite the pandemic. The question that never gets raised, much less answered, when the conversation turns to how bad the school closures were, is: “Compared to what?” “What would have happened had schools remained open without any mitigation …

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Closing schools to force parents to work from home was simply wrong, says union
2 years, 2 months ago

Closing schools to force parents to work from home was simply wrong, says union

NL Times  

The second coronavirus-related school closures in the Netherlands in mid-December 2020 caused “confusion and frustration among parents” because the Cabinet said the closures were to let parents work from home, not to protect the children, the Dutch Safety Board said in its second coronavirus report on Wednesday. “This report confirms that the school closures were also taken to force parents …

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Report: Albuquerque should shrink public schools, cut jobs
2 years, 7 months ago

Report: Albuquerque should shrink public schools, cut jobs

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — Albuquerque’s K-12 schools should cut staff and think about downsizing its footprint because of dwindling enrollment and spend more for the education of low-income students who fell further behind their peers during this school year, according to a report from the New Mexico Legislature made public Wednesday. The report from the powerful Legislative Finance Committee recommended …

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Closing schools again unfairly punishes kids: School leaders
3 years, 1 month ago

Closing schools again unfairly punishes kids: School leaders

NL Times  

While closing schools may help reduce the number of coronavirus infections, it would be terribly unfair to the children, according to primary schools' organization PO-Raad. On Wednesday, the PO-Raad, secondary schools' organization VO-Raad, university association VSNU, and education union AOb called on the Cabinet to prioritize education staff for Covid-19 booster shots. Children's Ombudsman Margrite Kalverboer asked the Cabinet to …

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Coronavirus lockdowns mean home learning is back, but experts say it comes at a cost
3 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus lockdowns mean home learning is back, but experts say it comes at a cost

ABC  

India Kerr's first years in high school have not gone as expected. "If the cases are the lowest they can be in the community … the risk of a case becoming apparent in a school will decline," Professor Macartney said. A study from Sweden, where in 2020 lower-secondary schools stayed open but upper-secondary schools closed, found leaving schools open had …

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Did Closing Schools Save Lives Or Cost Lives? The Debate Continues
3 years, 10 months ago

Did Closing Schools Save Lives Or Cost Lives? The Debate Continues

NPR  

Did Closing Schools Save Lives Or Cost Lives? The Debate Continues Enlarge this image toggle caption Al Bello/Getty Images Al Bello/Getty Images In November, I reported for NPR on a scientific paper that estimated millions of years of life could be lost due to prolonged school closures in the U.S. — far more, in fact, than might be lost by …

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Coronavirus sees schools in US close, while Europe keeps them open
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus sees schools in US close, while Europe keeps them open

CNN  

London CNN — Late last month, Ireland entered a strict, six-week lockdown against the spread of Covid-19, under which social gatherings are prohibited, exercise permitted only within five kilometers of the home, and bars and restaurants closed. “European countries have made a choice, I suppose, that trying to keep schools open is very important.” US school shutdowns Detroit Public Schools …

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Covid experts: Shut all schools during second wave
4 years, 2 months ago

Covid experts: Shut all schools during second wave

NL Times  

Schoolchildren form a growing group of coronavirus infections in the Netherlands population. The Red Team, a group of independent experts, is therefore calling on the government to immediately close all schools, BNR reports. So far 67 schools have had more than 10 coronavirus infections, Ginny Mooy of the Red Team said to BNR. The Outbreak Management Team is also against …

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