9 Ways That Corona Will Improve K-12 Education
Some of our emergency strategies look a lot like best practices.
In the time it takes to cough, COVID-19 flipped the entire K-12 education system on its head. Schools have undergone lightning transformations to move from contexts of brick and mortar to remote learning environments.
Once the dust has settled and the threat from this pandemic subsides, what will be the lasting impacts on education?
1. Improved responses to learning inequities.
In the remote learning environment, successful student participation often requires that they have their own devices, reliable wifi, suitable workspaces, and supportive parents.
Before the crisis, students possessing none of those requirements could attend school and actually survive. But once school buildings were shuttered, these students had no chance.
Moving forward, I think we’ll see schools, districts, and states change policies to mitigate these factors more aggressively. In some districts, this will look like a move to a 1:1 device policy for students. Some states will eventually pass laws to provide reliable wifi to every household. And some schools will strengthen partnerships with parents amid efforts to better support the home learning environments.
